Blink is a fast and efficient HTTP client library that is used to consume RESTful APIs. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Blink on NetBSD.
Before installing Blink, make sure that you have the necessary dependencies installed on your system. To install the dependencies, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo pkgin install libcurl
To download Blink, navigate to the https://docs.blink.rest website and click on the download button. Alternatively, you can use the following command to download the Blink library:
curl -LO https://github.com/blinkloader/blink/releases/download/v0.4.0/blink-0.4.0.tar.gz
Once the download is complete, extract the Blink archive using the following command:
tar -xzf blink-0.4.0.tar.gz
After extracting Blink, navigate to the extracted directory and run the following command to build and install the library:
./configure && make && sudo make install
To confirm that Blink has been successfully installed on your system, run the following command:
blink --version
This should display the version of Blink installed on your system.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install the Blink HTTP client library on NetBSD. You can now use Blink to consume RESTful APIs in your NetBSD projects.
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