On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 delphine.menjikoff_at_orsyp.com wrote:

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> With the Visual C++ IDE, I can specify easily the output of intermediate
> file (.obj files) and the output file of libcurl.lib.

In good old unix-tradtion, the object files are created within the directory
tree where you invoked configure.

> In spite of these options, all *.o files are generated in the
> /my_dir/curl_7.12.3/lib directory and the libcurl.a is generated in the
> /my_dir/curl_7.12.3/lib/.libs directory

As is mentioned in docs/INSTALL, the final step of a curl build is often the
actual installation of the program and library. 'make install' copies the
files to the proper places, possibly previously specified when you invoked
configure.

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