Read the entire contents of a file to c char *, including new lines

Question

I\'m looking for a cross platform (Windows + Linux) solution to reading the contents of an entire file into a char *.

This is what I\'ve got now:

Answer 1

fread reads all the files as-is:

 if (fread(contents, 1, fileSize, stream) != fileSize) {
    /* error occurred */
 }