DISCLAIMER: Yes, I do know that there is one that has the exact the program as me

link to that post HERE

I coincidentally have the exact same issue. However, I don’t know how to implement its answer into my code. Could someone give me an example code to it?

The suggestion is to change the following to link -lurlmon.lib option as #pragma comment(lib, "urlmon.lib") works only for MSVC

Is it as simple as replacing

#pragma comment(lib, "urlmon.lib") 

to

#pragma comment(lib, "lurlmon.lib") 

?

If so, then the solution doesn’t quite work.
I am using MinGW gcc compiler

My code is simply:

if (S_OK == URLDownloadToFileA(NULL, link, destination, 0, NULL)){
    cout << "Successed in downloading file no. " << count << endl;
}
else {
    cout << "Failed in downloading file no. " << count << endl;
}

where link, destination are all in const char* variable type

and count is just the file count (yes, the entire thing is in a for loop)