On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 19:00:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 11/25/13 4:36 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
The number one problem on Windows is the fact that libcurl
does not come with
Windows and that you have to get a version of it build which
is compatible
with dmd has proven to be a huge hurdle for Windows developers.
Why is "compatible with dmd" an issue? Do we make it any harder
for libcurl than other clients? Could you please explain?
To use 32-bit curl you need to generate an OMF import library
from the libcurl DLL. It's not terribly hard. I did it originally
for when I added downloading of libcurl to the Windows installer.
It's not at all obvious to users that they need to distribute
libcurl.dll et al when they distribute their application but
that's a documentation issue.
If I remember correctly Walter didn't want to distribute in the
dmd zip anything that wasn't boost licensed which is why curl on
Windows comes as a separate download. zlib is a notable exception
but I seem to recall Walter regretted including zlib.
I can't remember off the top of my head if libcurl's license
allows it to be statically linked with a boost licensed library
but that would certainly simplify things for end users (but
complicate the building of phobos a bit).
