On 2/24/2016 2:32 PM, Jeanne Vural wrote:
>
> Can I install multiple curl versions on same server to use for end
> user ftp and sftp commands?
>
> I have some existing code that uses curl 7.32.0 that I don’t want to
> risk breaking.
>
> However I need the sftp functionality offered by version 7.41.1.
>
>

Please consider using the latest version of curl for security and
stability. Like literally every week curl is improved, and then usually
every two months there is a new release with those improvements.
https://curl.haxx.se/download.html#Win32

To answer your question, yes you can do that. Since you use Windows the
biggest issue to be aware of is DLL dependency conflicts. Unless you
have at least one fully static version of curl (ie a version of curl
with no dependencies other than Windows) do not attempt to move it into
the directory of the existing curl that you want to keep.

If your version of curl is not fully static it will depend on at least
libcurl and at most other libraries as well like libssh2. The way curl
works is it uses the library libcurl to make the transfers, so if you
just copy the newer curl.exe that is not fully static to that existing
directory it could use the old libcurl DLL. In other words you end up
running curl 7.41.1 but it uses libcurl 7.32 which is not what you want.

The easiest way to see what your version of curl supports and make sure
you are using the right libcurl is by running curl -V at the command
prompt. You will see something like this:
curl 7.47.1-DEV (i386-pc-win32) libcurl/7.47.1-DEV OpenSSL/1.0.2f
nghttp2/1.7.1
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap pop3
pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS Debug Largefile NTLM SSL HTTP2

Note that the curl and libcurl version numbers match, 7.47.1-DEV. If it
supports sftp it will say that in protocols and there will be a line
like libssh2/1.7.0

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Received on 2016-02-24