The SAP NetWeaver RFC SDK allows to develop applications which can do Remote Function Calls to an SAP (ABAP) instance. How to get SAP RFC-SDK for C/C++: You need your SAP Service Marketplace username and password. Visit http://service.sap.com/ Under the "SAP Support Portal", there is a link titled "Software Download". Click on it. In the page that opens up, the left pane is a tree / hierarchical view. Follow this path: SAP Software Distribution Center --> Download --> Support Packages and Patches --> Entry by Application Group. Click on it. In the right pane, a few links will come up. Click on "Additional Components". In the right pane, a few more links are displayed. Choose "SAP RFC SDK UNICODE". (You always need the Unicode libraries, irrespective of whether your SAP Server is unicode or not).