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Re: Installing libcurl on Windows 7

From: Vincent Torri <vincent.torri_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:27:52 +0100

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Andy Horsman <minirobotics_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I normally do most of my development on Linux, and I started developing
> with libcurl successfully in Gentoo and Ubuntu. However I'd like to be able
> to develop in my Windows 7 desktop as well. I'm trying to install libcurl
> in Windows and have so far been unsuccessful, I'm running gcc 3.4.5 (mingw
> special). So far I've tried the following
>
> - Gone to http://curl.haxx.se/download.html and downlaoded
> curl-7.20.0.zip (latest version)
> - Extracted to C:\Users\andrew\My Documents\curl
> - Looked at the makefile and ran, *mingw32-make mingw32*
> - Couldn't find the make target
> - Attempted to do the make semi-manually, ran *mingw32-make -C lib -f
> Makefile.m32 *and* mingw32-make -C src -f Makefile.m32*
> - Attached the results, not sure if it ran successfully...
> - From here, how would I compile with gcc/g++?
>
>
> install MSYS and MinGW, open the MSYS terminal. In MSYS go to the curl
directory and run

./configure
make install

it will install curl in c:/msys/1.0/local/bin

Vincent Torri

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