Hello John,

> Did you install gcc?
  Do you mean gcc for the cygwin?

I have checked in my cygwin installation, but I don't see any thing about
curl in the /bin or even /usr/bin or /usr/sbin.

When installing cygwin, is there an option to install curl?

thanks&regards,

On 8/6/09, John Meissen <john_at_meissen.org> wrote:
>
>
> mwycliffe_at_gmail.com said:
> > I am new to curl and I need some help on how to install and configure
> curl
> > with cygwin.
>
> > I downloaded curl-7.19.5, and on trying to configure it from cygwin, I
> get
> > some error;
> ...
> > configure: error: ar not found in PATH. Cannot continue without ar.
>
> Did you install gcc?
>
> Why not just install the pre-built cygwin version of curl using the
> cygwin installer?
>
> john-
>
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