A static libcurl (ie winbuild mode=static) requires that the user define
CURL_STATICLIB when using it in their application. This is already
covered in the FAQ and INSTALL.md, but is a pretty important point so
now it's noted in the BUILD.WINDOWS.txt as well.
Assisted-by: Michael Vittiglio
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/4721
- Support custom devel paths for c-ares, mbedTLS, nghttp2, libSSH2,
OpenSSL and zlib. Respectively: CARES_PATH, MBEDTLS_PATH,
NGHTTP2_PATH, SSH2_PATH, SSL_PATH and ZLIB_PATH.
- Use lib.exe for making the static library instead of link.exe /lib.
The latter is undocumented and could cause problems as noted in the
comments.
- Remove a dangling URL that no longer worked. (I was not able to find
the IDN download at MSDN/microsoft.com, so it seems to be removed.)
- Remove custom override for release-ssh2-ssl-dll-zlib configuration.
Nobody knows why it was there and as far as we can see is unnecessary.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2474
Advise that WinSSL in versions <= XP will not be able to connect to
servers that no longer support the legacy handshakes and algorithms used
by those versions, and to use an alternate backend like OpenSSL instead.
Bug: https://github.com/bagder/curl/issues/253
Reported-by: zenden2k <zenden2k@gmail.com>
Added support for a WITH_CARES option to be used when invoking nmake
via Makefile.vc. This option enables linking against both the DLL and
static versions of the c-ares libraries, as well as the debug and
release varients, depending on the value of DEBUG. The USE_ARES
preprocessor symbol is also defined.
This is a separate makefile for MSVC builds. It is deliberately put in
another dir than src/ and lib/ to allow a different build experience
than the previous - at least during a period. Eventually we should
unify.
