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This document describes how to compile, build and install + curl and libcurl from source code. + +UNIX +==== + A normal unix installation is made in three or four steps (after you've + unpacked the source archive): + + ./configure + make + make test (optional) + make install + + You probably need to be root when doing the last command. + + If you have checked out the sources from the CVS repository, read the + CVS-INFO on how to proceed. + + Get a full listing of all available configure options by invoking it like: + + ./configure --help + + If you want to install curl in a different file hierarchy than /usr/local, + you need to specify that already when running configure: + + ./configure --prefix=/path/to/curl/tree + + If you happen to have write permission in that directory, you can do 'make + install' without being root. An example of this would be to make a local + install in your own home directory: + + ./configure --prefix=$HOME + make + make install + + The configure script always tries to find a working SSL library unless + explicitly told not to. If you have OpenSSL installed in the default search + path for your compiler/linker, you don't need to do anything special. If + you have OpenSSL installed in /usr/local/ssl, you can run configure like: + + ./configure --with-ssl + + If you have OpenSSL installed somewhere else (for example, /opt/OpenSSL) + and you have pkg-config installed, set the pkg-config path first, like this: + + env PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/OpenSSL/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --with-ssl + + Without pkg-config installed, use this: + + ./configure --with-ssl=/opt/OpenSSL + + If you insist on forcing a build without SSL support, even though you may + have OpenSSL installed in your system, you can run configure like this: + + ./configure --without-ssl + + If you have OpenSSL installed, but with the libraries in one place and the + header files somewhere else, you have to set the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS + environment variables prior to running configure. Something like this + should work: + + (with the Bourne shell and its clones): + + CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/ssl/lib" \ + ./configure + + (with csh, tcsh and their clones): + + env CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/ssl/lib" \ + ./configure + + If you have shared SSL libs installed in a directory where your run-time + linker doesn't find them (which usually causes configure failures), you can + provide the -R option to ld on some operating systems to set a hard-coded + path to the run-time linker: + + env LDFLAGS=-R/usr/local/ssl/lib ./configure --with-ssl + + MORE OPTIONS + ------------ + + To force configure to use the standard cc compiler if both cc and gcc are + present, run configure like + + CC=cc ./configure + or + env CC=cc ./configure + + To force a static library compile, disable the shared library creation + by running configure like: + + ./configure --disable-shared + + To tell the configure script to skip searching for thread-safe functions, + add an option like: + + ./configure --disable-thread + + To build curl with kerberos4 support enabled, curl requires the krb4 libs + and headers installed. You can then use a set of options to tell + configure where those are: + + --with-krb4-includes[=DIR] Specify location of kerberos4 headers + --with-krb4-libs[=DIR] Specify location of kerberos4 libs + --with-krb4[=DIR] where to look for Kerberos4 + + In most cases, /usr/athena is the install prefix and then it works with + + ./configure --with-krb4=/usr/athena + + If you're a curl developer and use gcc, you might want to enable more + debug options with the --enable-debug option. + + curl can be built to use a whole range of libraries to provide various + useful services, and configure will try to auto-detect a decent + default. But if you want to alter it, you can select how to deal with + each individual library. + + To build with GnuTLS support instead of OpenSSL for SSL/TLS, note that + you need to use both --without-ssl and --with-gnutls. + + To build with yassl support instead of OpenSSL or GnuTLS, you must build + yassl with its OpenSSL emulation enabled and point to that directory root + with configure --with-ssl. + + To build with NSS support instead of OpenSSL for SSL/TLS, note that + you need to use both --without-ssl and --with-nss. + + To get GSSAPI support, build with --with-gssapi and have the MIT or + Heimdal Kerberos 5 packages installed. + + To get support for SCP and SFTP, build with --with-libssh2 and have + libssh2 0.16 or later installed. + + SPECIAL CASES + ------------- + Some versions of uClibc require configuring with CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE=1 + to get correct large file support. + + The Open Watcom C compiler on Linux requires configuring with the variables: + + ./configure CC=owcc AR="$WATCOM/binl/wlib" AR_FLAGS=-q \ + RANLIB=/bin/true STRIP="$WATCOM/binl/wstrip" CFLAGS=-Wextra + + +Win32 +===== + + Building Windows DLLs and C run-time (CRT) linkage issues + --------------------------------------------------------- + + As a general rule, building a DLL with static CRT linkage is highly + discouraged, and intermixing CRTs in the same app is something to + avoid at any cost. + + Reading and comprehension of Microsoft Knowledge Base articles + KB94248 and KB140584 is a must for any Windows developer. Especially + important is full understanding if you are not going to follow the + advice given above. + + KB94248 - How To Use the C Run-Time + http://support.microsoft.com/kb/94248/en-us + + KB140584 - How to link with the correct C Run-Time (CRT) library + http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140584/en-us + + If your app is misbehaving in some strange way, or it is suffering + from memory corruption, before asking for further help, please try + first to rebuild every single library your app uses as well as your + app using the debug multithreaded dynamic C runtime. + + MingW32 + ------- + + Make sure that MinGW32's bin dir is in the search path, for example: + + set PATH=c:\mingw32\bin;%PATH% + + then run 'mingw32-make mingw32' in the root dir. There are other + make targets available to build libcurl with more features, use: + 'mingw32-make mingw32-zlib' to build with Zlib support; + 'mingw32-make mingw32-ssl-zlib' to build with SSL and Zlib enabled; + 'mingw32-make mingw32-ssh2-ssl-zlib' to build with SSH2, SSL, Zlib; + 'mingw32-make mingw32-ssh2-ssl-sspi-zlib' to build with SSH2, SSL, Zlib + and SSPI support. + + If you have any problems linking libraries or finding header files, be sure + to verify that the provided "Makefile.m32" files use the proper paths, and + adjust as necessary. It is also possible to override these paths with + environment variables, for example: + + set ZLIB_PATH=c:\zlib-1.2.3 + set OPENSSL_PATH=c:\openssl-0.9.8g + set LIBSSH2_PATH=c:\libssh2-0.17 + + ATTENTION: if you want to build with libssh2 support you have to use latest + version 0.17 - previous versions will NOT work with 7.17.0 and later! + Use 'mingw32-make mingw32-ssh2-ssl-zlib' to build with SSH2 and SSL enabled. + + It is now also possible to build with other LDAP SDKs than MS LDAP; + currently it is possible to build with native Win32 OpenLDAP, or with the + Novell CLDAP SDK. If you want to use these you need to set these vars: + + set LDAP_SDK=c:\openldap + set USE_LDAP_OPENLDAP=1 + + or for using the Novell SDK: + + set USE_LDAP_NOVELL=1 + + If you want to enable LDAPS support then set LDAPS=1. + + - optional MingW32-built OpenlDAP SDK available from: + http://www.gknw.net/mirror/openldap/ + - optional recent Novell CLDAP SDK available from: + http://developer.novell.com/ndk/cldap.htm + + + Cygwin + ------ + + Almost identical to the unix installation. Run the configure script in the + curl root with 'sh configure'. Make sure you have the sh executable in + /bin/ or you'll see the configure fail toward the end. + + Run 'make' + + Dev-Cpp + ------- + + See the separate INSTALL.devcpp file for details. + + MSVC from command line + ---------------------- + + Run the 'vcvars32.bat' file to get a proper environment. The + vcvars32.bat file is part of the Microsoft development environment and + you may find it in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\vc98\bin' + provided that you installed Visual C/C++ 6 in the default directory. + + Then run 'nmake vc' in curl's root directory. + + If you want to compile with zlib support, you will need to build + zlib (http://www.gzip.org/zlib/) as well. Please read the zlib + documentation on how to compile zlib. Define the ZLIB_PATH environment + variable to the location of zlib.h and zlib.lib, for example: + + set ZLIB_PATH=c:\zlib-1.2.3 + + Then run 'nmake vc-zlib' in curl's root directory. + + If you want to compile with SSL support you need the OpenSSL package. + Please read the OpenSSL documentation on how to compile and install + the OpenSSL libraries. The build process of OpenSSL generates the + libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll files in the out32dll subdirectory in + the OpenSSL home directory. OpenSSL static libraries (libeay32.lib, + ssleay32.lib, RSAglue.lib) are created in the out32 subdirectory. + + Before running nmake define the OPENSSL_PATH environment variable with + the root/base directory of OpenSSL, for example: + + set OPENSSL_PATH=c:\openssl-0.9.8g + + Then run 'nmake vc-ssl' or 'nmake vc-ssl-dll' in curl's root + directory. 'nmake vc-ssl' will create a libcurl static and dynamic + libraries in the lib subdirectory, as well as a statically linked + version of curl.exe in the src subdirectory. This statically linked + version is a standalone executable not requiring any DLL at + runtime. This make method requires that you have the static OpenSSL + libraries available in OpenSSL's out32 subdirectory. + 'nmake vc-ssl-dll' creates the libcurl dynamic library and + links curl.exe against libcurl and OpenSSL dynamically. + This executable requires libcurl.dll and the OpenSSL DLLs + at runtime. + Run 'nmake vc-ssl-zlib' to build with both ssl and zlib support. + + MSVC 6 IDE + ---------- + + A minimal VC++ 6.0 reference workspace (vc6curl.dsw) is available with the + source distribution archive to allow proper building of the two included + projects, the libcurl library and the curl tool. + + 1) Open the vc6curl.dsw workspace with MSVC6's IDE. + 2) Select 'Build' from top menu. + 3) Select 'Batch Build' from dropdown menu. + 4) Make sure that the eight project configurations are 'checked'. + 5) Click on the 'Build' button. + 6) Once the eight project configurations are built you are done. + + Dynamic and static libcurl libraries are built in debug and release flavours, + and can be located each one in its own subdirectory, DLL-Debug, DLL-Release, + LIB-Debug and LIB-Release, all of them below the 'lib' subdirectory. + + In the same way four curl executables are created, each using its respective + library. The resulting curl executables are located in its own subdirectory, + DLL-Debug, DLL-Release, LIB-Debug and LIB-Release, below the 'src' subdir. + + These reference VC++ 6.0 configurations are generated using the dynamic CRT. + + Intentionally, these reference VC++ 6.0 projects and configurations don't use + third party libraries, such as OpenSSL or Zlib, to allow proper compilation + and configuration for all new users without further requirements. + + If you need something more 'involved' you might adjust them for your own use, + or explore the world of makefiles described above 'MSVC from command line'. + + Borland C++ compiler + --------------------- + + compile openssl + + Make sure you include the paths to curl/include and openssl/inc32 in + your bcc32.cnf file + + eg : -I"c:\Bcc55\include;c:\path_curl\include;c:\path_openssl\inc32" + + Check to make sure that all of the sources listed in lib/Makefile.b32 + are present in the /path_to_curl/lib directory. (Check the src + directory for missing ones.) + + Make sure the environment variable "BCCDIR" is set to the install + location for the compiler eg : c:\Borland\BCC55 + + command line: + make -f /path_to_curl/lib/Makefile-ssl.b32 + + compile simplessl.c with appropriate links + + c:\curl\docs\examples\> bcc32 -L c:\path_to_curl\lib\libcurl.lib + -L c:\borland\bcc55\lib\psdk\ws2_32.lib + -L c:\openssl\out32\libeay32.lib + -L c:\openssl\out32\ssleay32.lib + simplessl.c + + OTHER MSVC IDEs + --------------- + + If you use VC++, Borland or similar compilers. Include all lib source + files in a static lib "project" (all .c and .h files that is). + (you should name it libcurl or similar) + + Make the sources in the src/ drawer be a "win32 console application" + project. Name it curl. + + + Disabling Specific Protocols in Win32 builds + -------------------------------------------- + + The configure utility, unfortunately, is not available for the Windows + environment, therefore, you cannot use the various disable-protocol + options of the configure utility on this platform. + + However, you can use the following defines to disable specific + protocols: + + HTTP_ONLY disables all protocols except HTTP + CURL_DISABLE_FTP disables FTP + CURL_DISABLE_LDAP disables LDAP + CURL_DISABLE_TELNET disables TELNET + CURL_DISABLE_DICT disables DICT + CURL_DISABLE_FILE disables FILE + CURL_DISABLE_TFTP disables TFTP + CURL_DISABLE_HTTP disables HTTP + + If you want to set any of these defines you have the following + possibilities: + + - Modify lib/config-win32.h + - Modify lib/setup.h + - Modify lib/Makefile.vc6 + - Add defines to Project/Settings/C/C++/General/Preprocessor Definitions + in the curllib.dsw/curllib.dsp Visual C++ 6 IDE project. + + + Important static libcurl usage note + ----------------------------------- + + When building an application that uses the static libcurl library, you must + add '-DCURL_STATICLIB' to your CFLAGS. Otherwise the linker will look for + dynamic import symbols. + + +IBM OS/2 +======== + Building under OS/2 is not much different from building under unix. + You need: + + - emx 0.9d + - GNU make + - GNU patch + - ksh + - GNU bison + - GNU file utilities + - GNU sed + - autoconf 2.13 + + If you want to build with OpenSSL or OpenLDAP support, you'll need to + download those libraries, too. Dirk Ohme has done some work to port SSL + libraries under OS/2, but it looks like he doesn't care about emx. You'll + find his patches on: http://come.to/Dirk_Ohme + + If during the linking you get an error about _errno being an undefined + symbol referenced from the text segment, you need to add -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__ + in your definitions. + + If everything seems to work fine but there's no curl.exe, you need to add + -Zexe to your linker flags. + + If you're getting huge binaries, probably your makefiles have the -g in + CFLAGS. + + +VMS +=== + (The VMS section is in whole contributed by the friendly Nico Baggus) + + Curl seems to work with FTP & HTTP other protocols are not tested. (the + perl http/ftp testing server supplied as testing too cannot work on VMS + because vms has no concept of fork(). [ I tried to give it a whack, but + thats of no use. + + SSL stuff has not been ported. + + Telnet has about the same issues as for Win32. When the changes for Win32 + are clear maybe they'll work for VMS too. The basic problem is that select + ONLY works for sockets. + + Marked instances of fopen/[f]stat that might become a problem, especially + for non stream files. In this regard, the files opened for writing will be + created stream/lf and will thus be safe. Just keep in mind that non-binary + read/wring from/to files will have a records size limit of 32767 bytes + imposed. + + Stat to get the size of the files is again only safe for stream files & + fixed record files without implied CC. + + -- My guess is that only allowing access to stream files is the quickest + way to get around the most issues. Therefore all files need to to be + checked to be sure they will be stream/lf before processing them. This is + the easiest way out, I know. The reason for this is that code that needs to + report the filesize will become a pain in the ass otherwise. + + Exit status.... Well we needed something done here, + + VMS has a structured exist status: + | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0| + |1098|765432109876|5432109876543|210| + +----+------------+-------------+---+ + |Ctrl| Facility | Error code |sev| + +----+------------+-------------+---+ + + With the Ctrl-bits an application can tell if part or the whole message has + already been printed from the program, DCL doesn't need to print it again. + + Facility - basically the program ID. A code assigned to the program + the name can be fetched from external or internal message libraries + Error code - the err codes assigned by the application + Sev. - severity: Even = error, off = non error + 0 = Warning + 1 = Success + 2 = Error + 3 = Information + 4 = Fatal + <5-7> reserved. + + This all presents itself with: + %<FACILITY>-<Sev>-<Errorname>, <Error message> + + See also the src/curlmsg.msg file, it has the source for the messages In + src/main.c a section is devoted to message status values, the globalvalues + create symbols with certain values, referenced from a compiled message + file. Have all exit function use a exit status derived from a translation + table with the compiled message codes. + + This was all compiled with: + + Compaq C V6.2-003 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.1-1H2 + + So far for porting notes as of: + 13-jul-2001 + N. Baggus + + +QNX +=== + (This section was graciously brought to us by David Bentham) + + As QNX is targeted for resource constrained environments, the QNX headers + set conservative limits. This includes the FD_SETSIZE macro, set by default + to 32. Socket descriptors returned within the CURL library may exceed this, + resulting in memory faults/SIGSEGV crashes when passed into select(..) + calls using fd_set macros. + + A good all-round solution to this is to override the default when building + libcurl, by overriding CFLAGS during configure, example + # configure CFLAGS='-DFD_SETSIZE=64 -g -O2' + + +RISC OS +======= + The library can be cross-compiled using gccsdk as follows: + + CC=riscos-gcc AR=riscos-ar RANLIB='riscos-ar -s' ./configure \ + --host=arm-riscos-aof --without-random --disable-shared + make + + where riscos-gcc and riscos-ar are links to the gccsdk tools. + You can then link your program with curl/lib/.libs/libcurl.a + + +AmigaOS +======= + (This section was graciously brought to us by Diego Casorran) + + To build cURL/libcurl on AmigaOS just type 'make amiga' ... + + What you need is: (not tested with others versions) + + GeekGadgets / gcc 2.95.3 (http://www.geekgadgets.org/) + + AmiTCP SDK v4.3 (http://www.aminet.net/comm/tcp/AmiTCP-SDK-4.3.lha) + + Native Developer Kit (http://www.amiga.com/3.9/download/NDK3.9.lha) + + As no ixemul.library is required you will be able to build it for + WarpOS/PowerPC (not tested by me), as well a MorphOS version should be + possible with no problems. + + To enable SSL support, you need a OpenSSL native version (without ixemul), + you can find a precompiled package at http://amiga.sourceforge.net/OpenSSL/ + + +NetWare +======= + To compile curl.nlm / libcurl.nlm you need: + - either any gcc / nlmconv, or CodeWarrior 7 PDK 4 or later. + - gnu make and awk running on the platform you compile on; + native Win32 versions can be downloaded from: + http://www.gknw.net/development/prgtools/ + - recent Novell LibC SDK available from: + http://developer.novell.com/ndk/libc.htm + - or recent Novell CLib SDK available from: + http://developer.novell.com/ndk/clib.htm + - optional recent Novell CLDAP SDK available from: + http://developer.novell.com/ndk/cldap.htm + - optional zlib sources (static or dynamic linking with zlib.imp); + sources with NetWare Makefile can be obtained from: + http://www.gknw.net/mirror/zlib/ + - optional OpenSSL sources (version 0.9.8 or later build with BSD sockets); + you can find precompiled packages at: + http://www.gknw.net/development/ossl/netware/ + for CLIB-based builds OpenSSL needs to be patched to build with BSD + sockets (currently only a winsock-based CLIB build is supported): + http://www.gknw.net/development/ossl/netware/patches/v_0.9.8g/openssl-0.9.8g.diff + - optional SSH2 sources (version 0.17 or later); + + Set a search path to your compiler, linker and tools; on Linux make + sure that the var OSTYPE contains the string 'linux'; set the var + NDKBASE to point to the base of your Novell NDK; and then type + 'make netware' from the top source directory; other targets available + are 'netware-ssl', 'netware-ssl-zlib', 'netware-zlib' and 'netware-ares'; + if you need other combinations you can control the build with the + environment variables WITH_SSL, WITH_ZLIB, WITH_ARES, WITH_SSH2, and + ENABLE_IPV6; you can set LINK_STATIC=1 to link curl.nlm statically. + By default LDAP support is enabled, however currently you will need a patch + in order to use the CLDAP NDK with BSD sockets (Novell Bug 300237): + http://www.gknw.net/test/curl/cldap_ndk/ldap_ndk.diff + I found on some Linux systems (RH9) that OS detection didn't work although + a 'set | grep OSTYPE' shows the var present and set; I simply overwrote it + with 'OSTYPE=linux-rh9-gnu' and the detection in the Makefile worked... + Any help in testing appreciated! + Builds automatically created 8 times a day from current CVS are here: + http://www.gknw.net/mirror/curl/autobuilds/ + the status of these builds can be viewed at the autobuild table: + http://curl.haxx.se/auto/ + + +eCos +==== + curl does not use the eCos build system, so you must first build eCos + separately, then link curl to the resulting eCos library. Here's a sample + configure line to do so on an x86 Linux box targeting x86: + + GCCLIB=`gcc -print-libgcc-file-name` && \ + CFLAGS="-D__ECOS=1 -nostdinc -I$ECOS_INSTALL/include \ + -I`dirname $GCCLIB`/include" \ + LDFLAGS="-nostdlib -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,-static \ + -L$ECOS_INSTALL/lib -Ttarget.ld -ltarget" \ + ./configure --host=i386 --disable-shared \ + --without-ssl --without-zlib --disable-manual --disable-ldap + + In most cases, eCos users will be using libcurl from within a custom + embedded application. Using the standard 'curl' executable from + within eCos means facing the limitation of the standard eCos C + startup code which does not allow passing arguments in main(). To + run 'curl' from eCos and have it do something useful, you will need + to either modify the eCos startup code to pass in some arguments, or + modify the curl application itself to retrieve its arguments from + some location set by the bootloader or hard-code them. + + Something like the following patch could be used to hard-code some + arguments. The MTAB_ENTRY line mounts a RAM disk as the root filesystem + (without mounting some kind of filesystem, eCos errors out all file + operations which curl does not take to well). The next section synthesizes + some command-line arguments for curl to use, in this case to direct curl + to read further arguments from a file. It then creates that file on the + RAM disk and places within it a URL to download: a file: URL that + just happens to point to the configuration file itself. The results + of running curl in this way is the contents of the configuration file + printed to the console. + +--- src/main.c 19 Jul 2006 19:09:56 -0000 1.363 ++++ src/main.c 24 Jul 2006 21:37:23 -0000 +@@ -4286,11 +4286,31 @@ + } + + ++#ifdef __ECOS ++#include <cyg/fileio/fileio.h> ++MTAB_ENTRY( testfs_mte1, ++ "/", ++ "ramfs", ++ "", ++ 0); ++#endif + + int main(int argc, char *argv[]) + { + int res; + struct Configurable config; ++#ifdef __ECOS ++ char *args[] = {"ecos-curl", "-K", "curlconf.txt"}; ++ FILE *f; ++ argc = sizeof(args)/sizeof(args[0]); ++ argv = args; ++ ++ f = fopen("curlconf.txt", "w"); ++ if (f) { ++ fprintf(f, "--url file:curlconf.txt"); ++ fclose(f); ++ } ++#endif + memset(&config, 0, sizeof(struct Configurable)); + + config.errors = stderr; /* default errors to stderr */ + + +Minix +===== + curl can be compiled on Minix 3 using gcc or ACK (starting with + ver. 3.1.3). + + ACK + --- + Increase the heap sizes of the compiler with the command: + + binsizes xxl + + Configure and compile with: + + ./configure CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bigsh CC=cc LD=cc AR=/usr/bin/aal \ + GREP=grep CPPFLAGS=-D_POSIX_SOURCE=1 + make + + GCC + --- + Make sure gcc is in your PATH with the command: + + export PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:$PATH + + then configure and compile curl with: + + ./configure CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bigsh CC=gcc AR=/usr/gnu/bin/gar GREP=grep + make + + +Symbian OS +========== + The Symbian OS port uses the Symbian build system to compile. From the + packages/Symbian/group/ directory, run: + + bldmake bldfiles + abld build + + to compile and install curl and libcurl. If your Symbian SDK doesn't + include support for P.I.P.S., you will need to contact your SDK vendor + to obtain that first. + + +CROSS COMPILE +============= + (This section was graciously brought to us by Jim Duey, with additions by + Dan Fandrich) + + Download and unpack the cURL package. + + 'cd' to the new directory. (e.g. cd curl-7.12.3) + + Set environment variables to point to the cross-compile toolchain and call + configure with any options you need. Be sure and specify the '--host' and + '--build' parameters at configuration time. The following script is an + example of cross-compiling for the IBM 405GP PowerPC processor using the + toolchain from MonteVista for Hardhat Linux. + + (begin script) + + #! /bin/sh + + export PATH=$PATH:/opt/hardhat/devkit/ppc/405/bin + export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/hardhat/devkit/ppc/405/target/usr/include" + export AR=ppc_405-ar + export AS=ppc_405-as + export LD=ppc_405-ld + export RANLIB=ppc_405-ranlib + export CC=ppc_405-gcc + export NM=ppc_405-nm + + ./configure --target=powerpc-hardhat-linux \ + --host=powerpc-hardhat-linux \ + --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu \ + --prefix=/opt/hardhat/devkit/ppc/405/target/usr/local \ + --exec-prefix=/usr/local + + (end script) + + You may also need to provide a parameter like '--with-random=/dev/urandom' + to configure as it cannot detect the presence of a random number + generating device for a target system. The '--prefix' parameter + specifies where cURL will be installed. If 'configure' completes + successfully, do 'make' and 'make install' as usual. + + In some cases, you may be able to simplify the above commands to as + little as: + + ./configure --host=ARCH-OS + + +REDUCING SIZE +============= + There are a number of configure options that can be used to reduce the + size of libcurl for embedded applications where binary size is an + important factor. First, be sure to set the CFLAGS variable when + configuring with any relevant compiler optimization flags to reduce the + size of the binary. For gcc, this would mean at minimum the -Os option, + and potentially the -march=X and -mdynamic-no-pic options as well, e.g. + + ./configure CFLAGS='-Os' ... + + Note that newer compilers often produce smaller code than older versions + due to improved optimization. + + Be sure to specify as many --disable- and --without- flags on the configure + command-line as you can to disable all the libcurl features that you + know your application is not going to need. Besides specifying the + --disable-PROTOCOL flags for all the types of URLs your application + will not use, here are some other flags that can reduce the size of the + library: + + --disable-ares (disables support for the ARES DNS library) + --disable-cookies (disables support for HTTP cookies) + --disable-crypto-auth (disables HTTP cryptographic authentication) + --disable-ipv6 (disables support for IPv6) + --disable-verbose (eliminates debugging strings and error code strings) + --enable-hidden-symbols (eliminates unneeded symbols in the shared library) + --without-libidn (disables support for the libidn DNS library) + --without-ssl (disables support for SSL/TLS) + --without-zlib (disables support for on-the-fly decompression) + + The GNU linker has a number of options to reduce the size of the libcurl + dynamic libraries on some platforms even further. Specify them by giving + the options -Wl,-Bsymbolic and -Wl,-s on the gcc command-line. + Be sure also to strip debugging symbols from your binaries after + compiling using 'strip' (or the appropriate variant if cross-compiling). + If space is really tight, you may be able to remove some unneeded + sections of the shared library using the -R option to objcopy (e.g. the + .comment section). + + Using these techniques it is possible to create an HTTP-only shared libcurl + library for i386 Linux platforms that is only 96 KiB in size (as of libcurl + version 7.17.1, using gcc 4.2.2). + + You may find that statically linking libcurl to your application will + result in a lower total size. + + +PORTS +===== + This is a probably incomplete list of known hardware and operating systems + that curl has been compiled for. If you know a system curl compiles and + runs on, that isn't listed, please let us know! + + - Alpha DEC OSF 4 + - Alpha Digital UNIX v3.2 + - Alpha FreeBSD 4.1, 4.5 + - Alpha Linux 2.2, 2.4 + - Alpha NetBSD 1.5.2 + - Alpha OpenBSD 3.0 + - Alpha OpenVMS V7.1-1H2 + - Alpha Tru64 v5.0 5.1 + - HP-PA HP-UX 9.X 10.X 11.X + - HP-PA Linux + - HP3000 MPE/iX + - MIPS IRIX 6.2, 6.5 + - MIPS Linux + - OS/400 + - Pocket PC/Win CE 3.0 + - Power AIX 3.2.5, 4.2, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 5.1, 5.2 + - PowerPC Darwin 1.0 + - PowerPC INTEGRITY + - PowerPC Linux + - PowerPC Mac OS 9 + - PowerPC Mac OS X + - SH4 Linux 2.6.X + - SH4 OS21 + - SINIX-Z v5 + - Sparc Linux + - Sparc Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10 + - Sparc SunOS 4.1.X + - StrongARM (and other ARM) RISC OS 3.1, 4.02 + - StrongARM/ARM7/ARM9 Linux 2.4, 2.6 + - StrongARM NetBSD 1.4.1 + - ARM INTEGRITY + - Symbian OS (P.I.P.S.) 9.x + - TPF + - Ultrix 4.3a + - UNICOS 9.0 + - i386 BeOS + - i386 DOS + - i386 eCos 1.3.1 + - i386 Esix 4.1 + - i386 FreeBSD + - i386 HURD + - i386 Haiku OS + - i386 Linux 1.3, 2.0, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.6 + - i386 MINIX 3.1 + - i386 NetBSD + - i386 Novell NetWare + - i386 OS/2 + - i386 OpenBSD + - i386 QNX 6 + - i386 SCO unix + - i386 Solaris 2.7 + - i386 Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 + - i486 ncr-sysv4.3.03 (NCR MP-RAS) + - ia64 Linux 2.3.99 + - m68k AmigaOS 3 + - m68k Linux + - m68k uClinux + - m68k OpenBSD + - m88k dg-dgux5.4R3.00 + - s390 Linux + - XScale/PXA250 Linux 2.4 + - Nios II uClinux + +Useful URLs +=========== + +OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org +MingW http://www.mingw.org +OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org +Zlib http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ +libssh2 http://www.libssh2.org + + |