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Re: How to build libcurl

From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka_at_redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:18:06 +0200

On Thu August 20 2009 15:00:18 Krishna Chaithanya Muthyala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What if I don't want to use the libcurl.so directly? I just download the
> source-code and build myself to generate the .so. And my linux environment
> already has libcurl installed.
>
> Now, I don't want to use the already installed libcurl. Instead I want to
> use the libcurl which I built myself. How to build my application which
> uses libcurl then?
>
> If -lcurl is given, I think gcc will take it from the installed libcurl in
> the system.

I think you want to play with LD_* environment variables on Linux:

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ld.so+8

Kamil
Received on 2009-08-20