Hi!

To use std.net.curl successfully with DMD 2.063.2 on Windows, I had to follow the steps below:

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1. Download libcurl from here: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html#Win32.

2. Extract libcurl.dll.

3. Download implib tool from here: http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip, as OPTLINK's /IMPLIB option did not work for me at all (error 138).

4. Run "implib.exe /system curl.lib libcurl.dll".

5a. Put the lib and dll in the current directory, OR

5b. modify the LIB line of DMD's bin\sc.ini file.

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The steps themselves, especially the "/system" option which added the needed "_" prefix to function names in the lib file, required quite a bit of googling and guessing for me as I'm not used to linking different formats of libraries by myself.

Is there an easier way?  How to learn about it?  A detailed instruction (at least as detailed as the steps above) at the top of the manual page (http://dlang.org/phobos/std_net_curl.html) would have been nice... After all, it's a third party library not fully supplied with the compiler.

Ivan Kazmenko.

> Is there an easier way?  How to learn about it?  A detailed instruction
> (at least as detailed as the steps above) at the top of the manual page
> (http://dlang.org/phobos/std_net_curl.html) would have been nice...
> After all, it's a third party library not fully supplied with the compiler.

Thew installer has an option to install curl with D.

On Friday, 9 August 2013 at 10:26:05 UTC, David wrote:
>> Is there an easier way?  How to learn about it?  A detailed instruction
>> (at least as detailed as the steps above) at the top of the manual page
>> (http://dlang.org/phobos/std_net_curl.html) would have been nice...
>> After all, it's a third party library not fully supplied with the compiler.
>
> Thew installer has an option to install curl with D.

Thank you, that's good to know!  And the download page contains D-compatible libcurl download at the bottom, which I overlooked (albeit not the current version) - sorry!

Still, the all-platforms zip, which is the first download option (and so I happily grabbed it), seems to contain neither libcurl nor sufficient documentation on how to install it.  So my point that the docs are somewhat lacking is still valid.

Ivan Kazmenko.