This repo shows how to use XGBoost in C++. While there is no officially supported C++ API, it is possible to directly call the internal C++ functions without using the C API.

To get started, download the url dataset from kaggle and save it to the data directory. Then, execute the urls.ipynb once. It will save a split and feature engineered version of the dataset to the data directory. While running it, pay attention to the confusion matrix the python code has generated. Then, run urls.cc, it will produce the same result as the python code.

If you want to extend the C++ code, I suggest you take a look at the implementation of the C functions in include/xgboost/c_api.h.