This looks awesomely useful--I don't need it right now because you provided
an msi, but I'll definitely keep it handy! Thanks a lot.

I nominate this (or something very much like it) for getting put the pycurl
website somewhere.

- James

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Nathan E. Moore <nate_at_redtetrahedron.org>wrote:

> Nathan's Glorious Guide to Building pycurl on windows
>
> This guide builds a monolithic dll, everything (except for the crt) is
> statically linked.
>
> This first part of this guide explain how to build libcurl, if you already
> know how to do that skip to the end.
>
> Things you will need
> (other versions of these programs may work, this is what I have)
> 1) Visual Studio C++ 2008 Express (aka vc9)
> 2) perl (openssl's build system requires this)
> 3) python
>
> Download the source code and unpack it:
> zlib -> http://www.zlib.net/ (Optional)
> openssl -> http://www.openssl.org/source/ (Optional)
> curl -> http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
> pycurl -> http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/download/
>
> Versions I am using:
> zlib 1.2.3
> openssl 0.9.8k
> curl-7.19.7
> pycurl 7.19.0
>
> At this point you should have a directory that looks like:
> curl-7.19.7\
> openssl-0.9.8k\
> pycurl-7.19.0\
> zlib-1.2.3\
>
> The rest of this should be done from the visual C++ command line: This can
> be opened from the start menu or from in visual C++ under the Tools menu.
>
> [if your not sure if you have the right thing, try running cl. You should
> see a copyright notice from Microsoft's C/C++ Optimizing Compiler]
>
> Curl, zlib and openssl include direction to build from source on windows.
> However I will give a brief description here.
>
> To build zlib from the zlib source dir run:
> nmake -f win32\MakeFile.msc
>
> You should now have a zlib.lib in the zlib source dir
>
> Building openssl is more involved. There are several alternatives for the
> some of the steps too see INSTALL.W32 in the openssl source for the details.
> 1) change to the openssl source dir (for me this is
> d:\pycurl\openssl-0.9.8k)
> 2) run "perl Configure VC-WIN32"
> 3) run "ms\do_masm"
> 4) run "nmake -f ms\nt.mak"
> 5) wait a short while
> 6) Done. the out32 directory should now contain a bunch of exe and 2 libs
>
> To build libcurl change to the curl directory (for me this is
> d:\pycurl\curl-7.19.7). Then run (it is all one line):
>
> nmake vc-ssl-zlib WINDOWS_SSPI=1 VC=vc9
> OPENSSL_PATH=D:\pycurl\openssl-0.9.8k ZLIB_PATH=D:\pycurl\zlib-1.2.3
>
> or if building without openssl and zlib
>
> nmake vc VC=vc9 WINDOWS_SSPI=1
>
> The breakdown of that command is
> vc-ssl-zlib:
> build curl with visual c, ssl, zlib, staticlly linking everything
> WINDOWS_SSPI=1
> use windows' code for NTLM auth rather than openssl
> VC=vc9
> using visual c 9 ( this defaults to vc6)
> OPENSSL_PATH & ZLIB_PATH
> paths to the source directorys of this librarys, so curl can find headers
> and libs. You can use relative paths here but they must be relative to
> curl-7.19.7\lib rather than curl-7.19.7.
>
> When that completes you should have a libcurl.lib in curl-7.19.7\lib\
>
> *******
>
> Building PyCurl without ssl and zlib:
> Change the pycurl directory and run
> python setup.py --curl-dir=..\curl-7.19.7 bdist_msi
> and then the dist subdirectory should contain
> "pycurl-7-19.0.win32-py2.6.msi" and your done.
>
> [Note if you don't want a msi you can also make an exe with bdist_wininst a
> zip with bdist or just install it with install]
>
> *******
>
> Building PyCurl with ssl and zlib
> the setup_win32_ssl.py file that pycurl ships doesn't work. This file is
> specific to one person's system. I have modified it so that it will work get
> a copy at
> http://www.longsincefaded.com/curl/setup_win32_ssl_2.txt
> and save it to the pycurl directory (Note the txt extensions is because my
> webhost is brain damaged, you can rename it to a .py if you wish)
>
> Then change to the pycurl directory and run
> python setup_win32_ssl_2.py --curl-dir=..\curl-7.19.7
> --openssl-dir=..\openssl-0.9.8k --zlib-dir=..\zlib-1.2.3 bdist_msi
> substitution you directories for curl, zlib, and openssl if they are not as
> above. The dist subdirectory should contain
> "pycurl-ssl-7-19.0.win32-py2.6.msi" and you are done.
>
> [Note if you don't want a msi you can also make an exe with bdist_winnist a
> zip with bdist or just install it with install]
>
>
> Also here is a build log of my build of pycurl with ssl and zlib for curl
> 7.19.7
> http://www.longsincefaded.com/curl/buildlog.txt
> And here is the my msi for 7.19.7 (I have renamed this from what setup.py
> creates to indicate what curl release it is)
>
> http://www.longsincefaded.com/curl/pycurl-ssl-7.19.0-libcurl7.19.7.win32-py2.6.msi
>
> Hopefully I (or someone else) will at some point become motivated enough to
> do over the setup.py windows support, so I doesn't need to be monkeypatched
> to do ssl.
>
> Hope this works for you.
>
> Nathan Moore
>
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