5 \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
9 Installing Binary Packages
10 ==========================
12 Lots of people download binary distributions of curl and libcurl. This
13 document does not describe how to install curl or libcurl using such a
14 binary package. This document describes how to compile, build and install
15 curl and libcurl from source code.
20 If you get your code off a git repository, see the GIT-INFO file in the
21 root directory for specific instructions on how to proceed.
25 A normal unix installation is made in three or four steps (after you've
26 unpacked the source archive):
33 You probably need to be root when doing the last command.
35 If you have checked out the sources from the git repository, read the
36 GIT-INFO on how to proceed.
38 Get a full listing of all available configure options by invoking it like:
42 If you want to install curl in a different file hierarchy than /usr/local,
43 you need to specify that already when running configure:
45 ./configure --prefix=/path/to/curl/tree
47 If you happen to have write permission in that directory, you can do 'make
48 install' without being root. An example of this would be to make a local
49 install in your own home directory:
51 ./configure --prefix=$HOME
55 The configure script always tries to find a working SSL library unless
56 explicitly told not to. If you have OpenSSL installed in the default search
57 path for your compiler/linker, you don't need to do anything special. If
58 you have OpenSSL installed in /usr/local/ssl, you can run configure like:
60 ./configure --with-ssl
62 If you have OpenSSL installed somewhere else (for example, /opt/OpenSSL)
63 and you have pkg-config installed, set the pkg-config path first, like this:
65 env PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/OpenSSL/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --with-ssl
67 Without pkg-config installed, use this:
69 ./configure --with-ssl=/opt/OpenSSL
71 If you insist on forcing a build without SSL support, even though you may
72 have OpenSSL installed in your system, you can run configure like this:
74 ./configure --without-ssl
76 If you have OpenSSL installed, but with the libraries in one place and the
77 header files somewhere else, you have to set the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS
78 environment variables prior to running configure. Something like this
81 (with the Bourne shell and its clones):
83 CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/ssl/lib" \
86 (with csh, tcsh and their clones):
88 env CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/ssl/lib" \
91 If you have shared SSL libs installed in a directory where your run-time
92 linker doesn't find them (which usually causes configure failures), you can
93 provide the -R option to ld on some operating systems to set a hard-coded
94 path to the run-time linker:
96 env LDFLAGS=-R/usr/local/ssl/lib ./configure --with-ssl
101 To force configure to use the standard cc compiler if both cc and gcc are
102 present, run configure like
106 env CC=cc ./configure
108 To force a static library compile, disable the shared library creation
109 by running configure like:
111 ./configure --disable-shared
113 To tell the configure script to skip searching for thread-safe functions,
116 ./configure --disable-thread
118 To build curl with kerberos4 support enabled, curl requires the krb4 libs
119 and headers installed. You can then use a set of options to tell
120 configure where those are:
122 --with-krb4-includes[=DIR] Specify location of kerberos4 headers
123 --with-krb4-libs[=DIR] Specify location of kerberos4 libs
124 --with-krb4[=DIR] where to look for Kerberos4
126 In most cases, /usr/athena is the install prefix and then it works with
128 ./configure --with-krb4=/usr/athena
130 If you're a curl developer and use gcc, you might want to enable more
131 debug options with the --enable-debug option.
133 curl can be built to use a whole range of libraries to provide various
134 useful services, and configure will try to auto-detect a decent
135 default. But if you want to alter it, you can select how to deal with
136 each individual library.
138 To build with GnuTLS support instead of OpenSSL for SSL/TLS, note that
139 you need to use both --without-ssl and --with-gnutls.
141 To build with yassl support instead of OpenSSL or GnuTLS, you must build
142 yassl with its OpenSSL emulation enabled and point to that directory root
143 with configure --with-ssl.
145 To build with NSS support instead of OpenSSL for SSL/TLS, note that
146 you need to use both --without-ssl and --with-nss.
148 To build with PolarSSL support instead of OpenSSL for SSL/TLS, note that
149 you need to use both --without-ssl and --with-polarssl.
151 To build with axTLS support instead of OpenSSL for TLS, note that you
152 need to use both --without-ssl and --with-axtls.
154 To get GSSAPI support, build with --with-gssapi and have the MIT or
155 Heimdal Kerberos 5 packages installed.
157 To get support for SCP and SFTP, build with --with-libssh2 and have
158 libssh2 0.16 or later installed.
160 To get Metalink support, build with --with-libmetalink and have the
161 libmetalink packages installed.
165 Some versions of uClibc require configuring with CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE=1
166 to get correct large file support.
168 The Open Watcom C compiler on Linux requires configuring with the variables:
170 ./configure CC=owcc AR="$WATCOM/binl/wlib" AR_FLAGS=-q \
171 RANLIB=/bin/true STRIP="$WATCOM/binl/wstrip" CFLAGS=-Wextra
177 Building Windows DLLs and C run-time (CRT) linkage issues
178 ---------------------------------------------------------
180 As a general rule, building a DLL with static CRT linkage is highly
181 discouraged, and intermixing CRTs in the same app is something to
184 Reading and comprehension of Microsoft Knowledge Base articles
185 KB94248 and KB140584 is a must for any Windows developer. Especially
186 important is full understanding if you are not going to follow the
189 KB94248 - How To Use the C Run-Time
190 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/94248/en-us
192 KB140584 - How to link with the correct C Run-Time (CRT) library
193 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140584/en-us
195 KB190799 - Potential Errors Passing CRT Objects Across DLL Boundaries
196 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235460
198 If your app is misbehaving in some strange way, or it is suffering
199 from memory corruption, before asking for further help, please try
200 first to rebuild every single library your app uses as well as your
201 app using the debug multithreaded dynamic C runtime.
206 Make sure that MinGW32's bin dir is in the search path, for example:
208 set PATH=c:\mingw32\bin;%PATH%
210 then run 'mingw32-make mingw32' in the root dir. There are other
211 make targets available to build libcurl with more features, use:
212 'mingw32-make mingw32-zlib' to build with Zlib support;
213 'mingw32-make mingw32-ssl-zlib' to build with SSL and Zlib enabled;
214 'mingw32-make mingw32-ssh2-ssl-zlib' to build with SSH2, SSL, Zlib;
215 'mingw32-make mingw32-ssh2-ssl-sspi-zlib' to build with SSH2, SSL, Zlib
218 If you have any problems linking libraries or finding header files, be sure
219 to verify that the provided "Makefile.m32" files use the proper paths, and
220 adjust as necessary. It is also possible to override these paths with
221 environment variables, for example:
223 set ZLIB_PATH=c:\zlib-1.2.7
224 set OPENSSL_PATH=c:\openssl-0.9.8x
225 set LIBSSH2_PATH=c:\libssh2-1.4.2
227 ATTENTION: if you want to build with libssh2 support you have to use latest
228 version 0.17 - previous versions will NOT work with 7.17.0 and later!
229 Use 'mingw32-make mingw32-ssh2-ssl-zlib' to build with SSH2 and SSL enabled.
231 It is now also possible to build with other LDAP SDKs than MS LDAP;
232 currently it is possible to build with native Win32 OpenLDAP, or with the
233 Novell CLDAP SDK. If you want to use these you need to set these vars:
235 set LDAP_SDK=c:\openldap
236 set USE_LDAP_OPENLDAP=1
238 or for using the Novell SDK:
240 set USE_LDAP_NOVELL=1
242 If you want to enable LDAPS support then set LDAPS=1.
244 - optional MingW32-built OpenLDAP SDK available from:
245 http://www.gknw.net/mirror/openldap/
246 - optional recent Novell CLDAP SDK available from:
247 http://developer.novell.com/ndk/cldap.htm
253 Almost identical to the unix installation. Run the configure script in the
254 curl root with 'sh configure'. Make sure you have the sh executable in
255 /bin/ or you'll see the configure fail toward the end.
262 See the separate INSTALL.devcpp file for details.
267 If you use MSVC 6 it is required that you use the February 2003 edition PSDK:
268 http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm
270 Building any software with MSVC 6 without having PSDK installed is just
271 asking for trouble down the road once you have released it, you might notice
272 the problems in the first corner or ten miles ahead, depending mostly on your
273 choice of static vs dynamic runtime and third party libraries. Anyone using
274 software built in such way will at some point regret having done so.
276 When someone uses MSVC 6 without PSDK he is using a compiler back from 1998.
278 If the compiler has been updated with the installation of a service pack as
279 those mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194022 the compiler can be
280 safely used to read source code, translate and make it object code.
282 But, even with the service packs mentioned above installed, the resulting
283 software generated in such an environment will be using outdated system
284 header files and libraries with bugs and security issues which have already
285 been addressed and fixed long time ago.
287 In order to make use of the updated system headers and fixed libraries
288 for MSVC 6, it is required that 'Platform SDK', PSDK from now onwards,
289 is installed. The specific PSDK that must be installed for MSVC 6 is the
290 February 2003 edition, which is the latest one supporting the MSVC 6 compiler,
291 this PSDK is also known as 'Windows Server 2003 PSDK' and can be downloaded
292 from http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm
294 So, building curl and libcurl with MSVC 6 without PSDK is absolutely
295 discouraged for the benefit of anyone using software built in such
296 environment. And it will not be supported in any way, as we could just
297 be hunting bugs which have already been fixed way back in 2003.
299 When building with MSVC 6 we attempt to detect if PSDK is not being used,
300 and if this is the case the build process will fail hard with an error
301 message stating that the February 2003 PSDK is required. This is done to
302 protect the unsuspecting and avoid PEBKAC issues.
304 Additionally it might happen that a die hard MSVC hacker still wants to
305 build curl and libcurl with MSVC 6 without PSDK installed, even knowing
306 that this is a highly discouraged and unsupported build environment. In
307 this case the brave of heart will be able to build in such an environment
308 with the requisite of defining preprocessor symbol ALLOW_MSVC6_WITHOUT_PSDK
309 in lib/config-win32.h and knowing that LDAP and IPv6 support will be missing.
311 MSVC from command line
312 ----------------------
314 Run the 'vcvars32.bat' file to get a proper environment. The
315 vcvars32.bat file is part of the Microsoft development environment and
316 you may find it in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\vc98\bin'
317 provided that you installed Visual C/C++ 6 in the default directory.
319 Then run 'nmake vc' in curl's root directory.
321 If you want to compile with zlib support, you will need to build
322 zlib (http://www.gzip.org/zlib/) as well. Please read the zlib
323 documentation on how to compile zlib. Define the ZLIB_PATH environment
324 variable to the location of zlib.h and zlib.lib, for example:
326 set ZLIB_PATH=c:\zlib-1.2.7
328 Then run 'nmake vc-zlib' in curl's root directory.
330 If you want to compile with SSL support you need the OpenSSL package.
331 Please read the OpenSSL documentation on how to compile and install
332 the OpenSSL libraries. The build process of OpenSSL generates the
333 libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll files in the out32dll subdirectory in
334 the OpenSSL home directory. OpenSSL static libraries (libeay32.lib,
335 ssleay32.lib, RSAglue.lib) are created in the out32 subdirectory.
337 Before running nmake define the OPENSSL_PATH environment variable with
338 the root/base directory of OpenSSL, for example:
340 set OPENSSL_PATH=c:\openssl-0.9.8x
342 Then run 'nmake vc-ssl' or 'nmake vc-ssl-dll' in curl's root
343 directory. 'nmake vc-ssl' will create a libcurl static and dynamic
344 libraries in the lib subdirectory, as well as a statically linked
345 version of curl.exe in the src subdirectory. This statically linked
346 version is a standalone executable not requiring any DLL at
347 runtime. This make method requires that you have the static OpenSSL
348 libraries available in OpenSSL's out32 subdirectory.
349 'nmake vc-ssl-dll' creates the libcurl dynamic library and
350 links curl.exe against libcurl and OpenSSL dynamically.
351 This executable requires libcurl.dll and the OpenSSL DLLs
353 Run 'nmake vc-ssl-zlib' to build with both ssl and zlib support.
358 A minimal VC++ 6.0 reference workspace (vc6curl.dsw) is available with the
359 source distribution archive to allow proper building of the two included
360 projects, the libcurl library and the curl tool.
362 1) Open the vc6curl.dsw workspace with MSVC6's IDE.
363 2) Select 'Build' from top menu.
364 3) Select 'Batch Build' from dropdown menu.
365 4) Make sure that the eight project configurations are 'checked'.
366 5) Click on the 'Build' button.
367 6) Once the eight project configurations are built you are done.
369 Dynamic and static libcurl libraries are built in debug and release flavours,
370 and can be located each one in its own subdirectory, DLL-Debug, DLL-Release,
371 LIB-Debug and LIB-Release, all of them below the 'lib' subdirectory.
373 In the same way four curl executables are created, each using its respective
374 library. The resulting curl executables are located in its own subdirectory,
375 DLL-Debug, DLL-Release, LIB-Debug and LIB-Release, below the 'src' subdir.
377 These reference VC++ 6.0 configurations are generated using the dynamic CRT.
379 Intentionally, these reference VC++ 6.0 projects and configurations don't use
380 third party libraries, such as OpenSSL or Zlib, to allow proper compilation
381 and configuration for all new users without further requirements.
383 If you need something more 'involved' you might adjust them for your own use,
384 or explore the world of makefiles described above 'MSVC from command line'.
387 ---------------------
389 Ensure that your build environment is properly set up to use the compiler
390 and associated tools. PATH environment variable must include the path to
391 bin subdirectory of your compiler installation, eg: c:\Borland\BCC55\bin
393 It is advisable to set environment variable BCCDIR to the base path of
394 the compiler installation.
396 set BCCDIR=c:\Borland\BCC55
398 In order to build a plain vanilla version of curl and libcurl run the
399 following command from curl's root directory:
403 To build curl and libcurl with zlib and OpenSSL support set environment
404 variables ZLIB_PATH and OPENSSL_PATH to the base subdirectories of the
405 already built zlib and OpenSSL libraries and from curl's root directory
408 make borland-ssl-zlib
410 libcurl library will be built in 'lib' subdirectory while curl tool
411 is built in 'src' subdirectory. In order to use libcurl library it is
412 advisable to modify compiler's configuration file bcc32.cfg located
413 in c:\Borland\BCC55\bin to reflect the location of libraries include
414 paths for example the '-I' line could result in something like:
416 -I"c:\Borland\BCC55\include;c:\curl\include;c:\openssl\inc32"
418 bcc3.cfg '-L' line could also be modified to reflect the location of
419 of libcurl library resulting for example:
421 -L"c:\Borland\BCC55\lib;c:\curl\lib;c:\openssl\out32"
423 In order to build sample program 'simple.c' from the docs\examples
424 subdirectory run following command from mentioned subdirectory:
426 bcc32 simple.c libcurl.lib cw32mt.lib
428 In order to build sample program simplessl.c an SSL enabled libcurl
429 is required, as well as the OpenSSL libeay32.lib and ssleay32.lib
436 If you use VC++, Borland or similar compilers. Include all lib source
437 files in a static lib "project" (all .c and .h files that is).
438 (you should name it libcurl or similar)
440 Make the sources in the src/ drawer be a "win32 console application"
441 project. Name it curl.
444 Disabling Specific Protocols in Win32 builds
445 --------------------------------------------
447 The configure utility, unfortunately, is not available for the Windows
448 environment, therefore, you cannot use the various disable-protocol
449 options of the configure utility on this platform.
451 However, you can use the following defines to disable specific
454 HTTP_ONLY disables all protocols except HTTP
455 CURL_DISABLE_FTP disables FTP
456 CURL_DISABLE_LDAP disables LDAP
457 CURL_DISABLE_TELNET disables TELNET
458 CURL_DISABLE_DICT disables DICT
459 CURL_DISABLE_FILE disables FILE
460 CURL_DISABLE_TFTP disables TFTP
461 CURL_DISABLE_HTTP disables HTTP
463 If you want to set any of these defines you have the following
466 - Modify lib/config-win32.h
468 - Modify lib/Makefile.vc6
469 - Add defines to Project/Settings/C/C++/General/Preprocessor Definitions
470 in the vc6libcurl.dsw/vc6libcurl.dsp Visual C++ 6 IDE project.
473 Using BSD-style lwIP instead of Winsock TCP/IP stack in Win32 builds
474 --------------------------------------------------------------------
476 In order to compile libcurl and curl using BSD-style lwIP TCP/IP stack
477 it is necessary to make definition of preprocessor symbol USE_LWIPSOCK
478 visible to libcurl and curl compilation processes. To set this definition
479 you have the following alternatives:
481 - Modify lib/config-win32.h and src/config-win32.h
482 - Modify lib/Makefile.vc6
483 - Add definition to Project/Settings/C/C++/General/Preprocessor Definitions
484 in the vc6libcurl.dsw/vc6libcurl.dsp Visual C++ 6 IDE project.
486 Once that libcurl has been built with BSD-style lwIP TCP/IP stack support,
487 in order to use it with your program it is mandatory that your program
488 includes lwIP header file <lwip/opt.h> (or another lwIP header that includes
489 this) before including any libcurl header. Your program does not need the
490 USE_LWIPSOCK preprocessor definition which is for libcurl internals only.
492 Compilation has been verified with lwIP 1.4.0 and contrib-1.4.0 from:
494 http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lwip/lwip-1.4.0.zip
495 http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lwip/contrib-1.4.0.zip
497 This BSD-style lwIP TCP/IP stack support must be considered experimental
498 given that it has been verified that lwIP 1.4.0 still needs some polish,
499 and libcurl might yet need some additional adjustment, caveat emptor.
501 Important static libcurl usage note
502 -----------------------------------
504 When building an application that uses the static libcurl library, you must
505 add '-DCURL_STATICLIB' to your CFLAGS. Otherwise the linker will look for
506 dynamic import symbols.
511 Building under OS/2 is not much different from building under unix.
523 If you want to build with OpenSSL or OpenLDAP support, you'll need to
524 download those libraries, too. Dirk Ohme has done some work to port SSL
525 libraries under OS/2, but it looks like he doesn't care about emx. You'll
526 find his patches on: http://come.to/Dirk_Ohme
528 If during the linking you get an error about _errno being an undefined
529 symbol referenced from the text segment, you need to add -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
532 If everything seems to work fine but there's no curl.exe, you need to add
533 -Zexe to your linker flags.
535 If you're getting huge binaries, probably your makefiles have the -g in
541 (The VMS section is in whole contributed by the friendly Nico Baggus)
543 Curl seems to work with FTP & HTTP other protocols are not tested. (the
544 perl http/ftp testing server supplied as testing too cannot work on VMS
545 because vms has no concept of fork(). [ I tried to give it a whack, but
548 SSL stuff has not been ported.
550 Telnet has about the same issues as for Win32. When the changes for Win32
551 are clear maybe they'll work for VMS too. The basic problem is that select
552 ONLY works for sockets.
554 Marked instances of fopen/[f]stat that might become a problem, especially
555 for non stream files. In this regard, the files opened for writing will be
556 created stream/lf and will thus be safe. Just keep in mind that non-binary
557 read/wring from/to files will have a records size limit of 32767 bytes
560 Stat to get the size of the files is again only safe for stream files &
561 fixed record files without implied CC.
563 -- My guess is that only allowing access to stream files is the quickest
564 way to get around the most issues. Therefore all files need to to be
565 checked to be sure they will be stream/lf before processing them. This is
566 the easiest way out, I know. The reason for this is that code that needs to
567 report the filesize will become a pain in the ass otherwise.
569 Exit status.... Well we needed something done here,
571 VMS has a structured exist status:
573 |1098|765432109876|5432109876543|210|
574 +----+------------+-------------+---+
575 |Ctrl| Facility | Error code |sev|
576 +----+------------+-------------+---+
578 With the Ctrl-bits an application can tell if part or the whole message has
579 already been printed from the program, DCL doesn't need to print it again.
581 Facility - basically the program ID. A code assigned to the program
582 the name can be fetched from external or internal message libraries
583 Error code - the err codes assigned by the application
584 Sev. - severity: Even = error, off = non error
592 This all presents itself with:
593 %<FACILITY>-<Sev>-<Errorname>, <Error message>
595 See also the src/curlmsg.msg file, it has the source for the messages In
596 src/main.c a section is devoted to message status values, the globalvalues
597 create symbols with certain values, referenced from a compiled message
598 file. Have all exit function use a exit status derived from a translation
599 table with the compiled message codes.
601 This was all compiled with:
603 Compaq C V6.2-003 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.1-1H2
605 So far for porting notes as of:
612 (This section was graciously brought to us by David Bentham)
614 As QNX is targeted for resource constrained environments, the QNX headers
615 set conservative limits. This includes the FD_SETSIZE macro, set by default
616 to 32. Socket descriptors returned within the CURL library may exceed this,
617 resulting in memory faults/SIGSEGV crashes when passed into select(..)
618 calls using fd_set macros.
620 A good all-round solution to this is to override the default when building
621 libcurl, by overriding CFLAGS during configure, example
622 # configure CFLAGS='-DFD_SETSIZE=64 -g -O2'
627 The library can be cross-compiled using gccsdk as follows:
629 CC=riscos-gcc AR=riscos-ar RANLIB='riscos-ar -s' ./configure \
630 --host=arm-riscos-aof --without-random --disable-shared
633 where riscos-gcc and riscos-ar are links to the gccsdk tools.
634 You can then link your program with curl/lib/.libs/libcurl.a
639 (This section was graciously brought to us by Diego Casorran)
641 To build cURL/libcurl on AmigaOS just type 'make amiga' ...
643 What you need is: (not tested with others versions)
645 GeekGadgets / gcc 2.95.3 (http://www.geekgadgets.org/)
647 AmiTCP SDK v4.3 (http://www.aminet.net/comm/tcp/AmiTCP-SDK-4.3.lha)
649 Native Developer Kit (http://www.amiga.com/3.9/download/NDK3.9.lha)
651 As no ixemul.library is required you will be able to build it for
652 WarpOS/PowerPC (not tested by me), as well a MorphOS version should be
653 possible with no problems.
655 To enable SSL support, you need a OpenSSL native version (without ixemul),
656 you can find a precompiled package at http://amiga.sourceforge.net/OpenSSL/
661 To compile curl.nlm / libcurl.nlm you need:
662 - either any gcc / nlmconv, or CodeWarrior 7 PDK 4 or later.
663 - gnu make and awk running on the platform you compile on;
664 native Win32 versions can be downloaded from:
665 http://www.gknw.net/development/prgtools/
666 - recent Novell LibC SDK available from:
667 http://developer.novell.com/ndk/libc.htm
668 - or recent Novell CLib SDK available from:
669 http://developer.novell.com/ndk/clib.htm
670 - optional recent Novell CLDAP SDK available from:
671 http://developer.novell.com/ndk/cldap.htm
672 - optional zlib sources (static or dynamic linking with zlib.imp);
673 sources with NetWare Makefile can be obtained from:
674 http://www.gknw.net/mirror/zlib/
675 - optional OpenSSL sources (version 0.9.8 or later build with BSD sockets);
676 you can find precompiled packages at:
677 http://www.gknw.net/development/ossl/netware/
678 for CLIB-based builds OpenSSL 0.9.8h or later is required - earlier versions
679 dont support buildunf with CLIB BSD sockets.
680 - optional SSH2 sources (version 0.17 or later);
682 Set a search path to your compiler, linker and tools; on Linux make
683 sure that the var OSTYPE contains the string 'linux'; set the var
684 NDKBASE to point to the base of your Novell NDK; and then type
685 'make netware' from the top source directory; other targets available
686 are 'netware-ssl', 'netware-ssl-zlib', 'netware-zlib' and 'netware-ares';
687 if you need other combinations you can control the build with the
688 environment variables WITH_SSL, WITH_ZLIB, WITH_ARES, WITH_SSH2, and
689 ENABLE_IPV6; you can set LINK_STATIC=1 to link curl.nlm statically.
690 By default LDAP support is enabled, however currently you will need a patch
691 in order to use the CLDAP NDK with BSD sockets (Novell Bug 300237):
692 http://www.gknw.net/test/curl/cldap_ndk/ldap_ndk.diff
693 I found on some Linux systems (RH9) that OS detection didn't work although
694 a 'set | grep OSTYPE' shows the var present and set; I simply overwrote it
695 with 'OSTYPE=linux-rh9-gnu' and the detection in the Makefile worked...
696 Any help in testing appreciated!
697 Builds automatically created 8 times a day from current git are here:
698 http://www.gknw.net/mirror/curl/autobuilds/
699 the status of these builds can be viewed at the autobuild table:
700 http://curl.haxx.se/dev/builds.html
705 curl does not use the eCos build system, so you must first build eCos
706 separately, then link curl to the resulting eCos library. Here's a sample
707 configure line to do so on an x86 Linux box targeting x86:
709 GCCLIB=`gcc -print-libgcc-file-name` && \
710 CFLAGS="-D__ECOS=1 -nostdinc -I$ECOS_INSTALL/include \
711 -I`dirname $GCCLIB`/include" \
712 LDFLAGS="-nostdlib -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,-static \
713 -L$ECOS_INSTALL/lib -Ttarget.ld -ltarget" \
714 ./configure --host=i386 --disable-shared \
715 --without-ssl --without-zlib --disable-manual --disable-ldap
717 In most cases, eCos users will be using libcurl from within a custom
718 embedded application. Using the standard 'curl' executable from
719 within eCos means facing the limitation of the standard eCos C
720 startup code which does not allow passing arguments in main(). To
721 run 'curl' from eCos and have it do something useful, you will need
722 to either modify the eCos startup code to pass in some arguments, or
723 modify the curl application itself to retrieve its arguments from
724 some location set by the bootloader or hard-code them.
726 Something like the following patch could be used to hard-code some
727 arguments. The MTAB_ENTRY line mounts a RAM disk as the root filesystem
728 (without mounting some kind of filesystem, eCos errors out all file
729 operations which curl does not take to well). The next section synthesizes
730 some command-line arguments for curl to use, in this case to direct curl
731 to read further arguments from a file. It then creates that file on the
732 RAM disk and places within it a URL to download: a file: URL that
733 just happens to point to the configuration file itself. The results
734 of running curl in this way is the contents of the configuration file
735 printed to the console.
737 --- src/main.c 19 Jul 2006 19:09:56 -0000 1.363
738 +++ src/main.c 24 Jul 2006 21:37:23 -0000
739 @@ -4286,11 +4286,31 @@
744 +#include <cyg/fileio/fileio.h>
745 +MTAB_ENTRY( testfs_mte1,
752 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
755 struct Configurable config;
757 + char *args[] = {"ecos-curl", "-K", "curlconf.txt"};
759 + argc = sizeof(args)/sizeof(args[0]);
762 + f = fopen("curlconf.txt", "w");
764 + fprintf(f, "--url file:curlconf.txt");
768 memset(&config, 0, sizeof(struct Configurable));
770 config.errors = stderr; /* default errors to stderr */
775 curl can be compiled on Minix 3 using gcc or ACK (starting with
776 ver. 3.1.3). Ensure that GNU gawk and bash are both installed and
777 available in the PATH.
781 Increase the heap sizes of the compiler with the command:
785 then configure and compile curl with:
787 ./configure CC=cc LD=cc AR=/usr/bin/aal GREP=grep \
788 CPPFLAGS='-D_POSIX_SOURCE=1 -I/usr/local/include'
790 chmem =256000 src/curl
794 Make sure gcc is in your PATH with the command:
796 export PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:$PATH
798 then configure and compile curl with:
800 ./configure CC=gcc AR=/usr/gnu/bin/gar GREP=grep
802 chmem =256000 src/curl
807 The Symbian OS port uses the Symbian build system to compile. From the
808 packages/Symbian/group/ directory, run:
813 to compile and install curl and libcurl using SBSv1. If your Symbian
814 SDK doesn't include support for P.I.P.S., you will need to contact
815 your SDK vendor to obtain that first.
820 Build for VxWorks is performed using cross compilation.
821 That means you build on Windows machine using VxWorks tools and
822 run the built image on the VxWorks device.
824 To build libcurl for VxWorks you need:
826 - CYGWIN (free, http://cygwin.com/)
827 - Wind River Workbench (commercial)
829 If you have CYGWIN and Workbench installed on you machine
830 follow after next steps:
832 1. Open the Command Prompt window and change directory ('cd')
833 to the libcurl 'lib' folder.
834 2. Add CYGWIN 'bin' folder to the PATH environment variable.
835 For example, type 'set PATH=C:/embedded/cygwin/bin;%PATH%'.
836 3. Adjust environment variables defined in 'Environment' section
837 of the Makefile.vxworks file to point to your software folders.
838 4. Build the libcurl by typing 'make -f ./Makefile.vxworks'
840 As a result the libcurl.a library should be created in the 'lib' folder.
841 To clean the build results type 'make -f ./Makefile.vxworks clean'.
846 Method using the static makefile:
847 - see the build notes in the Android.mk file.
849 Method using a configure cross-compile (tested with Android NDK r7b):
850 - prepare the toolchain of the Android NDK for standalone use; this can
851 be done by invoking the script:
852 ./tools/make-standalone-toolchain.sh
853 which creates a usual cross-compile toolchain. Lets assume that you put
854 this toolchain below /opt then invoke configure with something like:
855 export PATH=/opt/arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3/bin:$PATH
856 ./configure --host=arm-linux-androideabi [more configure options]
858 - if you want to compile directly from our GIT repo you might run into
859 this issue with older automake stuff:
860 checking host system type...
861 Invalid configuration `arm-linux-androideabi':
862 system `androideabi' not recognized
863 configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub arm-linux-androideabi failed
864 this issue can be fixed with using more recent versions of config.sub
865 and config.guess which can be obtained here:
866 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=tree
867 you need to replace your system-own versions which usually can be
868 found in your automake folder:
869 find /usr -name config.sub
874 (This section was graciously brought to us by Jim Duey, with additions by
877 Download and unpack the cURL package.
879 'cd' to the new directory. (e.g. cd curl-7.12.3)
881 Set environment variables to point to the cross-compile toolchain and call
882 configure with any options you need. Be sure and specify the '--host' and
883 '--build' parameters at configuration time. The following script is an
884 example of cross-compiling for the IBM 405GP PowerPC processor using the
885 toolchain from MonteVista for Hardhat Linux.
891 export PATH=$PATH:/opt/hardhat/devkit/ppc/405/bin
892 export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/hardhat/devkit/ppc/405/target/usr/include"
896 export RANLIB=ppc_405-ranlib
897 export CC=ppc_405-gcc
900 ./configure --target=powerpc-hardhat-linux \
901 --host=powerpc-hardhat-linux \
902 --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu \
903 --prefix=/opt/hardhat/devkit/ppc/405/target/usr/local \
904 --exec-prefix=/usr/local
908 You may also need to provide a parameter like '--with-random=/dev/urandom'
909 to configure as it cannot detect the presence of a random number
910 generating device for a target system. The '--prefix' parameter
911 specifies where cURL will be installed. If 'configure' completes
912 successfully, do 'make' and 'make install' as usual.
914 In some cases, you may be able to simplify the above commands to as
917 ./configure --host=ARCH-OS
922 There are a number of configure options that can be used to reduce the
923 size of libcurl for embedded applications where binary size is an
924 important factor. First, be sure to set the CFLAGS variable when
925 configuring with any relevant compiler optimization flags to reduce the
926 size of the binary. For gcc, this would mean at minimum the -Os option,
927 and potentially the -march=X and -mdynamic-no-pic options as well, e.g.
929 ./configure CFLAGS='-Os' ...
931 Note that newer compilers often produce smaller code than older versions
932 due to improved optimization.
934 Be sure to specify as many --disable- and --without- flags on the configure
935 command-line as you can to disable all the libcurl features that you
936 know your application is not going to need. Besides specifying the
937 --disable-PROTOCOL flags for all the types of URLs your application
938 will not use, here are some other flags that can reduce the size of the
941 --disable-ares (disables support for the C-ARES DNS library)
942 --disable-cookies (disables support for HTTP cookies)
943 --disable-crypto-auth (disables HTTP cryptographic authentication)
944 --disable-ipv6 (disables support for IPv6)
945 --disable-manual (disables support for the built-in documentation)
946 --disable-proxy (disables support for HTTP and SOCKS proxies)
947 --disable-verbose (eliminates debugging strings and error code strings)
948 --enable-hidden-symbols (eliminates unneeded symbols in the shared library)
949 --without-libidn (disables support for the libidn DNS library)
950 --without-ssl (disables support for SSL/TLS)
951 --without-zlib (disables support for on-the-fly decompression)
953 The GNU compiler and linker have a number of options that can reduce the
954 size of the libcurl dynamic libraries on some platforms even further.
955 Specify them by providing appropriate CFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables on the
956 configure command-line:
957 CFLAGS="-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections" \
958 LDFLAGS="-Wl,-s -Wl,-Bsymbolic -Wl,--gc-sections"
960 Be sure also to strip debugging symbols from your binaries after
961 compiling using 'strip' (or the appropriate variant if cross-compiling).
962 If space is really tight, you may be able to remove some unneeded
963 sections of the shared library using the -R option to objcopy (e.g. the
966 Using these techniques it is possible to create a basic HTTP-only shared
967 libcurl library for i386 Linux platforms that is only 101 KiB in size, and
968 an FTP-only library that is 105 KiB in size (as of libcurl version 7.21.5,
971 You may find that statically linking libcurl to your application will
972 result in a lower total size than dynamically linking.
974 Note that the curl test harness can detect the use of some, but not all, of
975 the --disable statements suggested above. Use will cause tests relying on
976 those features to fail. The test harness can be manually forced to skip
977 the relevant tests by specifying certain key words on the runtests.pl
978 command line. Following is a list of appropriate key words:
980 --disable-cookies !cookies
981 --disable-crypto-auth !HTTP\ Digest\ auth !HTTP\ proxy\ Digest\ auth
982 --disable-manual !--manual
983 --disable-proxy !HTTP\ proxy !proxytunnel !SOCKS4 !SOCKS5
988 This is a probably incomplete list of known hardware and operating systems
989 that curl has been compiled for. If you know a system curl compiles and
990 runs on, that isn't listed, please let us know!
993 - Alpha Digital UNIX v3.2
994 - Alpha FreeBSD 4.1, 4.5
995 - Alpha Linux 2.2, 2.4
998 - Alpha OpenVMS V7.1-1H2
999 - Alpha Tru64 v5.0 5.1
1001 - ARM Android 1.5, 2.1
1006 - HP-PA HP-UX 9.X 10.X 11.X
1009 - MicroBlaze uClinux
1010 - MIPS IRIX 6.2, 6.5
1013 - Pocket PC/Win CE 3.0
1014 - Power AIX 3.2.5, 4.2, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 5.1, 5.2
1015 - PowerPC Darwin 1.0
1024 - Sparc Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10
1026 - StrongARM (and other ARM) RISC OS 3.1, 4.02
1027 - StrongARM/ARM7/ARM9 Linux 2.4, 2.6
1028 - StrongARM NetBSD 1.4.1
1029 - Symbian OS (P.I.P.S.) 9.x
1040 - i386 Linux 1.3, 2.0, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.6
1043 - i386 Novell NetWare
1049 - i386 Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003
1050 - i486 ncr-sysv4.3.03 (NCR MP-RAS)
1056 - m88k dg-dgux5.4R3.00
1059 - XScale/PXA250 Linux 2.4
1065 axTLS http://axtls.sourceforge.net/
1066 c-ares http://c-ares.haxx.se/
1067 GNU GSS http://www.gnu.org/software/gss/
1068 GnuTLS http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/
1069 Heimdal http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/
1070 libidn http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/
1071 libssh2 http://www.libssh2.org/
1072 MIT Kerberos http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/dist/
1073 NSS http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
1074 OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/
1075 OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org/
1076 PolarSSL http://polarssl.org/
1077 yassl http://www.yassl.com/
1078 Zlib http://www.zlib.net/
1080 MingW http://www.mingw.org/
1081 MinGW-w64 http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
1082 OpenWatcom http://www.openwatcom.org/