# Alibaba Cloud OSS SDK for C
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) is a cloud storage service provided by Alibaba Cloud, featuring massive capacity, security, a low cost, and high reliability. You can upload and download data on any application anytime and anywhere by calling APIs, and perform simple management of data through the web console. The OSS can store any type of files and therefore applies to various websites, development enterprises and developers. The OSS C SDK provides a variety of interfaces for convenient use of the OSS.
The OSS C SDK adopts cURL for network operations on both clients and servers. OSS C SDK uses the APR and APR-Util libraries for memory management and cross-platform operations, and uses the Mini-XML library for parsing XML returned by a request. These external libraries are not included in the OSS C SDK. You need to install these libraries and add their header file directories and the library file directories to the project.
Download from here and install it by referring to libcurl Installation Guide. A typical installation approach is as follows:
./configure
make
make install
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Download from here. A typical installation method is as follows:
./configure
make
make install
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Download from here. The --with-apr option must be specified during installation. A typical installation method is as follows:
./configure --with-apr=/your/apr/install/path
make
make install
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Download from here. A typical installation method is as follows:
./configure
make
make install
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Download from here. A typical installation method is as follows:
./configure
make
make install
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Specify the third-party library header file and library file paths in the cmake command during installation. A typical compilation command is as follows:
cmake .
make
make install
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cmake . -DCURL_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include/curl/ -DCURL_LIBRARY=/usr/local/lib/libcurl.a -DAPR_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include/apr-1/ -DAPR_LIBRARY=/usr/local/lib/libapr-1.a -DAPR_UTIL_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/apr/include/apr-1 -DAPR_UTIL_LIBRARY=/usr/local/apr/lib/libaprutil-1.a -DMINIXML_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include -DMINIXML_LIBRARY=/usr/local/lib/libmxml.a