Could I get rid of libcurl.dll and compile a stand-lone application with Curl?
 

Hello everyone,

I am compiling a program that is using Curl library under Windows XP.

My compiler is Visual Studio 2005, the only thing bothers is that the executable does require libcurl.dll and some other related-dlls to be under /windows/system32.

I am not sure whether there is someway to combine those dlls together into an stand-alone executable or it is impossible because of licience.

I am good with both but do need some reference to prove it.

Thanks for any help,


-Kun

The license is BSD, isn't it ? I.e. all you are required to do is "pay tribute", i.e. to mention that your app uses CURL, but you do not have to distribute the source.

Recompile curl.lib as static one.

thanks. Could you give me some more details ? I did compile the library myself and got .lib and .dll file. I linked the lib in Visual Studio 2005, but it require the .dll file be under system folder. Is that dynamic dll ? Or how could I compile a static one ?


Thanks a lot,

-Kun

I don't know for Visual Studio, but I successfully compiled a static library under Mingw32 with a basic feature set. Just in case, here are the needed steps (also for someone new to Mingw):

[Mingw / MSYS]
- download Mingw package and install/unzip
- add the Mingw bin directory path to the PATH variable
- download MSYS (from Mingw's sourceforge repository)

[Build]
- run MSYS
- type cd <your_curl_directory> (replace accordingly)
- type ./configure --enable-shared=no --without-ssl --without-zlib --without-libidn
--enable-http --enable-ftp --enable-ipv6 (script will run for a while, so grab a cup of coffee)
- type make
- now you should find the libcurl.a static library in the .lib directory
- copy it somewhere
- type make distclean (will clean up the temporary files left from the build)

Hope this helps,
f

Thanks, man. I tried it and it works!

I finally have to get rid of MinGW and libcurl since I have to use some other things like PCRE and Tidy, which could be compiled under VC easily.

Right now I used WinInet to replace libcurl in my app.

Sure this post helps future comers.


-Kun