I happened to notice that among my libcurl*s libcurl-gnutls.so.3 libcurl-gnutls.so.4 libcurl-gnutls.so.4.3.0 libcurl.so.3 libcurl.so.4 libcurl.so.4.3.0
none were just libcurl.so. So I made a link for libcurl.so to the latest version and now I am getting the same link errors I got after downloading the -dev version. So apparently my "can't find -lcurl" was because I didn't have a non-versioned libcurl.so available as it went away when I created one (and there was probably one created by the -dev download).
