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I spent FOREVER working on this. Thank you so much for helping me out by writing this blog post.

Would you happen to know how to take this one step further and build with libssh2 for ssh support — for sftp?

Haven’t explored that. I might update this with instructions on how to build in SSL support though.

Well, it’s easy to build the lib, but I still don’t see how to solve the linker issues in my project which uses the lib.

unresolved externals:

curl_easy_cleanup curl_easy_perform curl_easy_setopt curl_easy_init … …

@Natko – Make sure you link the library. Those externals are in curllib.lib

Thanks a lot! Your post was a great help.

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Hi there, great work you’ve done :-) ….. this was a real pain in the ass for me.

Thanks a bunch! I had hard time with this, but your post helped a lot!

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Just got cURL 7.18.1 source and cURL.NET binding source (last build 2005) and was going to try to rebuild the .NET binding project with VS2005, then VS2008/.NET3. I’m a C# guy, not qualified to work with C++ but I did update and publish another OSS project so I’m not totally clueless. Anyway, I packed it up pretty quickly: There are environment vars and tweaks to configs, libs to include and other packages to include and update (OpenSSL, zLib…). Stuff like zLib hasn’t been updated in a couple years and some help pages suggest linking in stuff I’ve never heard of. No, I’m afraid this isn’t work for the lightweight. I’m not looking for a fish but a fishing pole – can anyone suggest some reading that will lead me to being able to create updated DLL’s so that anyone can simply “reference n run” their cURL-powered apps using any .NET/CLR language? I’d be happy to maintain some of this stuff but I don’t have a clue how to do the initial bundle. TYVM

Like everyone else, you just saved me a ton of time!!

Thanks for the pointers — saved me lots of time. I also had to link in wldap32.lib to get libcurl 7.19.0 to build with VS2008.

Just a big THANK YOU again!

I’m missing winldap.h in VS 2005. Where an I get it?

Hi Me,

You don’t need th winldap.h if you are trying to compile Curlib.lib. You will need winldap.lib which you may find in your visual studio directory.

I just fixed the compilation error for this today.

I am trying to add the LibSSh2.lib in Curlib.lib. I can’t generate the Libssh2.lib because of some linking error. Any one has libssh2.lib?

This is what I have been looking for two months. Even libcurl mailing list didn’t give concrete step there. Simple but very useful! Thanks!

You just saved me a great deal of time and frustration.

I had already blown a couple hours and was sinking into a morass of linking issues between libcurl and zlib versions. (“the ordinal xxx could not be located” in the zlib1.dll) This avoids the problem entirely.

Thank you!

omg! That’s what I was missing. I wasn’t including the libcurl.lib file. You are awesome. Thank you! :)

Thanks a lot…..Its was a great help…..keep up the good work :)

Thx a lot. Experienced similar problems with PCRE library. I really wonder why the library authors fail to provide this kind of help to Windows users. It’s not just chance that everybody had this problem…

Thx a lot!

Another option is to install CMake. Download the cURL source (e.g. ‘C:\src’). Open a console shell. Ensure your run your desired vcvars32.bat to setup your build environment. Then do something like the following:

C:\src> mkdir build C:\src> cd build C:\build> cmake -DCURL_STATICLIB=1 -G “NMake Makefiles” .. C:\build> nmake

That’s it. You should have a static libcurl library sitting in the same directory. That produces a debug build. If you want a release build add something like “-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=MinSizeRel” to the cmake command above. Note that, depending on what vcvars32.bat you run, you can have either 32-bit or 64-bit builds of libcurl as needed.

Hope this helps.

Hello. I’m trying to use the curl lib with Visual Studio 2005, and its seems like impossible. After i followed each step above I’m getting this error:

1>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file ‘curllib.lib’

I did linked that and all, so I dono why i get this error.

-I don’t know where is the location of the ‘curllib.lib’. how does VS2005 knows where to get that lib file from?

-what should i do with lib\curllib.vcproj after i modified its settings?

I’m so confused so I’am sorry if its not a proper question..

Thanks, Shai.

Hi, I while trying to build, I am getting the following error.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\include\winsock2.h(1506): error C2011: ‘pollfd’ : ‘struct’ type redefinition

It seems some structure in header files is conflicting with windows header file. I am using VS 2008. how can this be fixed?

I know it’s been a long since 2007 but did you ever got an static compilable version of libcurl for windows? Can you upload it or send me a copy? Thanks!