md5sum of file in Linux C

An easy answer to the question asked by Raja and using answer from sje397, the md5sum of a file can be calculated within the C program as below. Also notice that there is no need of writing the read command twice when you can use the do while loop.

int calculate_md5sum(char *filename)
{
  //open file for calculating md5sum
  FILE *file_ptr;
  file_ptr = fopen(filename, "r");
  if (file_ptr==NULL)
  {
    perror("Error opening file");
    fflush(stdout);
    return 1;
  }

  int n;
  MD5_CTX c;
  char buf[512];
  ssize_t bytes;
  unsigned char out[MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];

  MD5_Init(&c);
  do
  {
    bytes=fread(buf, 1, 512, file_ptr);
    MD5_Update(&c, buf, bytes);
  }while(bytes > 0);

  MD5_Final(out, &c);

  for(n=0; n<MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH; n++)
          printf("%02x", out[n]);
  printf("\n");
  return 0;
}