On Thu, 24 May 2007, Kevin Walzer wrote:

> I've successfully built the latest version of cURL with libssh2 support, and
> have done some basic testing; the sftp module seems to work fine. I am
> planning to use this build of cURL in an application I am developing for
> sftp, and am wondering if libssh2 is only a build dependency for cURL, or a
> runtime dependency as well. It would reduce the size of my application if I
> did not have to bundle libssh2 with cURL as well.

curl can be built to use libssh2 fine, and it can be built with a static or
shared version of it. If you build with a shared version of it, it will add a
run-time depdency but a smaller binary executable size and vice versa.

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