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Re: libcurl 7.15.1 - no Win32 support for SSH ?

From: Stephen Collyer <scollyer_at_netspinner.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:00:52 +0000

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Stephen Collyer wrote:
>
>> That's a pain. So if I'm intending to deliver a product built
>> against a libcurl with SSH support, it's advisable that I build
>> it myself, and include it as a delivered library under Windows ?
>
> As opposed to? You certainly can't assume that a Win32 user is going to
> have libcurl installed on their system,

If a suitable prebuilt binary existed I could point them at that. If
it doesn't then ..

> so your options are pretty much
> either link your program statically to libcurl or distribute the libcurl
> DLL with your application.

these are my options, plus telling the users to build the library
themselves, which in my case is a possibility.

> This is totally orthogonal to the issue of
> whether you acquired the libcurl library in binary prebuilt form or
> built it yourself though.

It's not really. It's all part of the same question.

-- 
Regards
Steve Collyer
Netspinner Ltd
Received on 2008-03-17