_ _ ____ _ ___| | | | _ \| | / __| | | | |_) | | | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| How To Compile Curl has been compiled and built on numerous different operating systems. The way to proceed is mainly divided in two different ways: the unix way or the windows way. If you're using Windows (95, 98, NT) or OS/2, you should continue reading from the Win32 header below. All other systems should be capable of being installed as described in the the UNIX header. PORTS ===== Just to show off, this is a probably incomplete list of known hardware and operating systems that curl has been compiled for: - Ultrix - SINIX-Z v5 - Alpha Tru64 v5.0 5.1 - Alpha DEC OSF 4 - Alpha Digital UNIX v3.2 - HP-PA HP-UX 9.X 10.X 11.X - MIPS IRIX 6.2, 6.5 - Power AIX 4.2, 4.3.1, 4.3.2 - PowerPC Darwin 1.0 - PowerPC Linux - PowerPC Mac OS X - Sparc Linux - Sparc Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8 - Sparc SunOS 4.1.* - i386 BeOS - i386 FreeBSD - i386 Linux 1.3, 2.0, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 - i386 NetBSD - i386 OS/2 - i386 OpenBSD - i386 Solaris 2.7 - i386 Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 - ia64 Linux 2.3.99 - m68k AmigaOS 3 - m68k OpenBSD UNIX ==== The configure script *always* tries to find a working SSL library unless explicitly told not to. If you have OpenSSL installed in the default search path for your compiler/linker, you don't need to do anything special. If you have OpenSSL installed in /usr/local/ssl, you can run configure like: ./configure --with-ssl If you have OpenSSL installed somewhere else (for example, /opt/OpenSSL,) you can run configure like this: ./configure --with-ssl=/opt/OpenSSL If you insist on forcing a build *without* SSL support, even though you may have it installed in your system, you can run configure like this: ./configure --without-ssl If you have OpenSSL installed, but with the libraries in one place and the header files somewhere else, you'll have to set the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS environment variables prior to running configure. Something like this should work: (with the Bourne shell and its clones): CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/ssl/lib" \ ./configure (with csh, tcsh and their clones): env CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/ssl/lib" \ ./configure If your SSL library was compiled with rsaref (usually for use in the United States), you may also need to set: LIBS=-lRSAglue -lrsaref (from Doug Kaufman ) Without SSL support, just run: ./configure Then run: make Use the executable `curl` in src/ directory. 'make install' copies the curl file to /usr/local/bin/ (or $prefix/bin if you used the --prefix option to configure) and copies the curl.1 man page to a suitable place too. KNOWN PROBLEMS If you happen to have autoconf installed, but a version older than 2.12 you will get into trouble. Then you can still build curl by issuing these commands: (from Ralph Beckmann ) ./configure [...] cd lib; make; cd .. cd src; make; cd .. cp src/curl elsewhere/bin/ OPTIONS Remember, to force configure to use the standard cc compiler if both cc and gcc are present, run configure like CC=cc ./configure or env Cc=cc ./configure Win32 ===== Without SSL: MingW32 (GCC-2.95) style ------------------------ Run the 'mingw32.bat' file to get the proper environment variables set, then run 'make -f Makefile.m32' in the lib/ dir and then 'make -f Makefile.m32' in the src/ dir. If you have any problems linking libraries or finding header files, be sure to look at the provided "Makefile.m32" files for the proper paths, and adjust as necessary. Cygwin style ------------ Almost identical to the unix installation. Run the configure script in the curl root with 'sh configure'. Make sure you have the sh executable in /bin/ or you'll see the configure fail towards the end. Run 'make' Microsoft command line style ---------------------------- Run the 'vcvars32.bat' file to get the proper environment variables set, then run 'nmake -f Makefile.vc6' in the lib/ dir and then 'nmake -f Makefile.vc6' in the src/ dir. IDE-style ------------------------- If you use VC++, Borland or similar compilers. Include all lib source files in a static lib "project" (all .c and .h files that is). (you should name it libcurl or similar) Make the sources in the src/ drawer be a "win32 console application" project. Name it curl. With VC++, add 'wsock32.lib' to the link libs when you build curl! Borland seems to do that itself magically. Of course you have to make sure it links with the libcurl too! For VC++ 6, there's an included Makefile.vc6 that should be possible to use out-of-the-box. Microsoft note: add /Zm200 to the compiler options, as the hugehelp.c won't compile otherwise due to "too long puts string" or something like that! With SSL: MingW32 (GCC-2.95) style ------------------------ Run the 'mingw32.bat' file to get the proper environment variables set, then run 'make -f Makefile.m32 SSL=1' in the lib/ dir and then 'make -f Makefile.m32 SSL=1' in the src/ dir. If you have any problems linking libraries or finding header files, be sure to look at the provided "Makefile.m32" files for the proper paths, and adjust as necessary. Cygwin style ------------ Haven't done, nor got any reports on how to do. It should although be identical to the unix setup for the same purpose. See above. Microsoft command line style ---------------------------- Run the 'vcvars32.bat' file to get the proper environment variables set, then run 'nmake -f Makefile.vc6 release-ssl' in the lib/ dir and then 'nmake -f Makefile.vc6' in the src/ dir. Microsoft / Borland style ------------------------- If you have OpenSSL, and want curl to take advantage of it, edit your project properties to use the SSL include path, link with the SSL libs and define the USE_SSLEAY symbol. IBM OS/2 ======== Building under OS/2 is not much different from building under unix. You need: - emx 0.9d - GNU make - GNU patch - ksh - GNU bison - GNU file utilities - GNU sed - autoconf 2.13 If you want to build with OpenSSL or OpenLDAP support, you'll need to download those libraries, too. Dirk Ohme has done some work to port SSL libraries under OS/2, but it looks like he doesn't care about emx. You'll find his patches on: http://come.to/Dirk.Ohme If during the linking you get an error about _errno being an undefined symbol referenced from the text segment, you need to add -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__ in your definitions. If everything seems to work fine but there's no curl.exe, you need to add -Zexe to your linker flags. If you're getting huge binaries, probably your makefiles have the -g in CFLAGS. OpenSSL ======= You'll find OpenSSL information at: http://www.openssl.org MingW32/Cygwin ============== You'll find MingW32 and Cygwin information at: http://www.mingw.org OpenLDAP ======== You'll find OpenLDAP information at: http://www.openldap.org You need to install it with shared libraries, which is enabled when running the ldap configure script with "--enable-shared". With my linux 2.0.36 kernel I also had to disable using threads (with --without-threads), because the configure script couldn't figure out my system.