Hi!
To use std.net.curl successfully with DMD 2.063.2 on Windows, I
had to follow the steps below:
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1. Download libcurl from here:
http://curl.haxx.se/download.html#Win32.
2. Extract libcurl.dll.
3. Download implib tool from here:
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip, as OPTLINK's /IMPLIB option
did not work for me at all (error 138).
4. Run "implib.exe /system curl.lib libcurl.dll".
5a. Put the lib and dll in the current directory, OR
5b. modify the LIB line of DMD's bin\sc.ini file.
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The steps themselves, especially the "/system" option which added
the needed "_" prefix to function names in the lib file, required
quite a bit of googling and guessing for me as I'm not used to
linking different formats of libraries by myself.
Is there an easier way? How to learn about it? A detailed
instruction (at least as detailed as the steps above) at the top
of the manual page (http://dlang.org/phobos/std_net_curl.html)
would have been nice... After all, it's a third party library not
fully supplied with the compiler.
Ivan Kazmenko.
