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Notes from previous experiences.
These are not current.

Updated, 19th Sept. 2006

Fetch the binary version of libcurl from 
   http://curl.haxx.se/download.html#Win32

(There is no development version there, i.e. -devel)

Using MinGW, version 3.4.2, we can link directly
Unzip this into a directory and then







Download the curl development distribution for mingw32 with ssl.
That is 
  curl-7.12.0-win32-ssl-devel-mingw32.zip 
via
  http://curl.haxx.se/download.html#Win32

If SSL is not needed, obviously retrieve the version
without SSL.

To make the Curl header and library files available
for the build, it is easiest (?) to copy the
relevant files from the curl distribution into
a centralized location that is shared across
the different development tools that are used
when compiling R packages. This directory
behaves like /usr/local/ in Unix and has
a include/, lib/ and bin/ directory.
We put the header files in the include/,
the libraries in lib/ and the DLLs for run-time
in bin/ as necessary. 

For curl, we copy the contents of the include/ directory in the curl
distribution to $HOME/include to create a directory
$HOME/include/curl/ with the header files.  Similarly, we copy the *.a
files to the $HOME/lib/ directory. These .a files are in the top-level
directory of the curl distribution.



SSL
---

curl does not come with the SSL libraries it needs (for good
reasons). Instead, you need to fetch them. For me, I downloaded and
built from the source distribution.  I am using openssl-0.9.7e. The
files are available at

   www.openssl.org

Unzip and build the openssl libraries by running the command

 ./Configure mingw
 make

I configured the build with
  ./Configure mingw no-asm
to remove the assembler compilation which caused problems with
the MinGW version I was using (as 2.15.91).

Then, manually copy libssl.a and libcrypto.a to
the $HOME/lib/ directory where we tell the compilation
to find these libraries.  See RCurl/src/Makevars.win
and the LOCAL variable.