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Building Crow

Building Crow - C++ Tutorial

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Building Crow

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- [Instructor] Crow is a C++ web micro framework. It is available at github.com/ipkn/crow. It is inspired by Flask, which is written in Python. While Crow is not well known, it is well-liked with over four thousand stars on GitHub. It is also easy to understand, easy to use, and fast. Plus, it is header-only. Which means to use it, all you need to do is include its header file in your project. We need to download its header file. Go to github.com/ipkn/crowreleases, or click the release link. Scroll down 'til you see crow_all.h. Click it to download the header file. And we will copy it from the downloads, to the desktop to our cppweb, right there. Let's start a new project. On the container from the cppweb directory, create a new directory, hello_crow. cd into that directory. Let's put a copy of crow_all.h here as well. cp ../crow_all.h and a single period. And let's return to our editor with hello_crow as the project directory. So we're gonna say atom . Now we have hello_crow. We have…

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