Hi. When you cross-post the same question to both the mailing list and as a new Github issue, it would help people keep track of things if you could post links from one to the other - https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6687
As I wrote on the Github issue, this is due to the LibCURL.jl package (https://github.com/amitmurthy/LibCURL.jl, not forio/Curl.jl which is deprecated in lieu of Requests.jl) not handling its binary dependencies properly for Windows users. The Requests.jl package appears to have its dependencies in better order (and it even has tests! yay for tests) and could potentially be a replacement for LibCURL.jl and HTTPClient.jl, but that would require rewriting some of the Plotly code's HTTP posts. I gave that a quick try a few weeks ago when I was looking at trying to use Plotly.jl myself, but gave up for the time being since simple replacement wasn't working. I think I just worked out how to get LibCURL.jl to automatically download the curl library for you on Windows, and opened a pull request here https://github.com/amitmurthy/LibCURL.jl/pull/10. If you're in a hurry, you should be able to try out my branch by doing Pkg.rm("LibCURL") Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tkelman/LibCURL.jl";) Pkg.checkout("LibCURL", "winrpm") Then restart Julia and see if using Plotly works any better. Remember to eventually switch back to the official version of LibCURL, once Windows support is working in the original repository. On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 5:59:23 AM UTC-7, sam cooper wrote: > > When trying to run the Plotly.plot function in julia (running on windows 8 > unfortunatley I can't change this having tried extensivley) I am > encountering the error message: > > error compiling setup_easy_handle: could not load module libcurl > > This problem seems to be a recurrent problem in windows environments, > googling it brings up several threads where this is a problem though none > seem to have been properly resolved: > > https://github.com/forio/Curl.jl/issues/10 > https://www.mail-archive.com/julia-users@googlegroups.com/msg04638.html > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/2XpGjLUC0ow > > > I ran Pkg.update() as one thread suggested this had been resolved in a > recent update, no luck. > > Has anyone found a resolution to this? If not is there any possibility of > this problem being resolved in the near future or does anyone have any > advice on how I might set about resolving this problem myself? > > Thank you very much in advance for any help. > Sam >
