How to Install Blink on NetBSD

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.

Step 1: Install Dependencies

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

Step 2: Download Blink

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

Step 3: Extract Blink

Once the download is complete, extract the Blink archive using the following command:

tar -xzf blink-0.4.0.tar.gz

Step 4: Build and install Blink

After extracting Blink, navigate to the extracted directory and run the following command to build and install the library:

./configure && make && sudo make install

Step 5: Verify installation

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.

Conclusion

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.