Hi, I have just spent 2 frustrating hours trying to determine why the
new version of libcurl (7.12.3) seemed to not build properly on my system.

As I just found out by doing a bunch of diffs with the previous version
(7.12.1) which built properly, I now needed to define CURL_STATICLIB in
my application for it to import properly. I am unaware of this
requirement prior to the current version, and I apologize if you have
explicitly mentioned this new incompatibility in any visible point on
the website-download-build route, because I have not seen, nor was able
to find any such mention.

The errors one gets in these circumstances are "unresolved external
symbol __imp__curl_whatever"s when trying to link the application that
statically links to libcurl.lib.

I doubt I am the one single person that builds applications that
statically link to libcurl. Or at least I hope not. :)

--Tn
Received on 2004-12-20