IP2Location C Library
IP2Location is a C library that enables the user to find the country, region, city, latitude, longitude, zip code, time zone, ISP, domain name, connection type, area code, weather, mobile network, elevation, usage type by IP address or hostname originates from. The library reads the geo location information from IP2Location BIN data file.
Supported IPv4 and IPv6 address.
For more details, please visit: https://www.ip2location.com/developers/c
Installation
Unix/Linux
autoreconf -i -v --force
./configure
make
make install
cd data
perl ip-country.pl
Windows
Execute "vcvarsall.bat". (This file is part of Microsoft Visual C, not ip2location code)
nmake -f Makefile.win
cd data
perl ip-country.pl
MacOS
autoreconf -i -v --force
export CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/malloc
./configure
make
make install
cd data
perl ip-country.pl
Testing
cd test
test-IP2Location
Sample BIN Databases
- Download free IP2Location LITE databases at https://lite.ip2location.com
- Download IP2Location sample databases at https://www.ip2location.com/developers
IPv4 BIN vs IPv6 BIN
- Use the IPv4 BIN file if you just need to query IPv4 addresses.
- Use the IPv6 BIN file if you need to query BOTH IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
NOTES
If you encountered error while loading shared libraries in linux platform, that could be due to the shared library was saved into usr/local/lib that might not be the default library path. You can run the below command
ldconfig /usr/local/lib
Packages for Fedora/Enterprise Linux can be found here
- https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=32132
- https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/IP2Location
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=IP2Location
Support
Email: support@ip2location.com.
URL: https://www.ip2location.com