Alberto Bignotti

Building libcurl 7.58.0 on windows

Development environment

• Visual studio 2017 community edition
• Activeperl 5.24.1
• Nasm 2.12.02
• Cmake 3.10.2

My dev root is c:\dev_gcc\ - I know, we are not using gcc ;)

Activeperl installation

Download and run Windows Installer (EXE), remeber to add perl.exe to PATH system variable

Nasm installation

• Download zipped binaries
• Unizp in a foler
• Add folder of nasm.exe to PATH system variable
• Create a system variable NASM_PATH with path of nasm.exe

CMake installation

Download and run Windows win64-x64 Installer

Libcurl libaries dependencies:

ZLIB 1.2.11

https://www.zlib.net/

• Download zlib source code, unzip in: curltut\zlib-1.2.11
• Open folder: curltut\zlib-1.2.11\contrib\vstudio\vc14
• Open solution file with VS2017 zlibvc.sln change output path to ..\..\..\..\x64\bin\zlib\
• Build solution
  • binaries: curltut\x64\bin
  • zlib ddl file: zlibwapi.dll

Note:

To use zlibwapi.dll in your application, you must define the macro ZLIB_WINAPI when compiling your application’s source files.

OPENSSL 1.1.0g

https://www.openssl.org/source/

• Download sources openssl-1.1.0g.tar.gz, unizp in curltut\openssl-1.1.0g
• Open VS2017 x64 command prompt
• Take a look at configuration flags: openssl-1.1.0g\INSTALL
• Execute this commands:

set PATH=C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\zlib;%PATH%

cd curltut\openssl-1.1.0g

perl Configure VC-WIN64A-masm zlib --openssldir=c:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\openssl --prefix=c:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\openssl --with-zlib-include=C:\dev_gcc\curltut\zlib-1.2.11 --with-zlib-lib=C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\zlib\zlibwapi.lib

nmake clean

nmake

nmake test

nmake install

• Binaries: curltut\x64\bin\openssl

libssh2 1.8.0

https://www.libssh2.org/

• Download sources and unzip in curltut\libssh2-1.8.0
• Open command prompt:

  cd curltut\libssh2-1.8.0
  mkdir ..\x64\bin\libssh2
  

• Open CMake-GUI.exe
• Configure for Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64
• 
• Changes:

  Ungrouper Entries
    CRYPTO_BACKEND = OpenSSL
    OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR = C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\openssl\include
  BUILD
    BUILD_SHARED_LIBS = True
  DLL
    DLL_LIBEAY32 = C:/dev_gcc/curltut/x64/bin/openssl/bin/libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll
    DLL_SSLEAY32 = C:/dev_gcc/curltut/x64/bin/openssl/bin/libssl-1_1-x64.dll
  ENABLE
    ENABLE_ZLIB_COMPRESSION = True
  LIB
    LIB_EAY_RELEASE = C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\openssl\lib\libcrypto.lib
  SSL
    LIB_EAY_RELEASE = C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\openssl\lib\libcrypto.lib
  ZLIB
    ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR = C:\dev_gcc\curltut\zlib-1.2.11
    ZLIB_LIBRARY_RELEASE = C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\zlib\zlibwapi.lib
  

• Open solution file with VS2017 curltut\x64\bin\libssh2\libssh2.sln and build configuration Release
• Binaries: curltut\x64\bin\libssh2\src\Release

nghttp2 1.30.0

• Download sources from https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2
• Unzip to curltut\nghttp2-master
• Open cmake-gui
• Configure for Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64
• Change this variables:

  CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES = Release
  CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX = C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\nghttp2\bin
  LIB_EAY_RELEASE = C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\openssl\lib\libcrypto.lib
  SSL_EAY_RELEASE = C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\openssl\lib\libssl.lib
  OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR = C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\openssl
  ZLIB_LIBRARY = C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\zlib\zlibwapi.lib
  ZLIB_ROOT C:\dev_gcc\curltut\zlib-1.2.11
  

• Build (from command line)

  cd C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\nghttp2\
  cmake --build . --config Release
  

libcurl 7.58.0

https://curl.haxx.se/download.html

• Download zip sources and unzip in: curltut\curl-7.58.0
• Open command prompt:

  cd curltut\curl-7.58.0
  mkdir ..\x64\bin\libcurl
  

• Open solution file with VS2017 curltut\curl-7.58.0\projects\Windows\VC15\curl-all.sln
• Select configuration DLL Release - DLL OpenSSL - DLL LibSSH2
• For each project change output folder to: c:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\libcurl
• Project libcurl, add this preprocessor defines:
  • HAVE_LIBZ
  • HAVE_ZLIB_H
  • USE_NGHTTP2
• Project libcurl, modify include paths:
  • C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\openssl\include
  • C:\dev_gcc\curltut\libssh2-1.8.0\include
  • C:\dev_gcc\curltut\zlib-1.2.11
  • C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\nghttp2\bin\include
• Project libcurl, modify library paths:
  • C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\openssl\lib
  • C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\libssh2\src\Release
  • C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\zlib
  • C:\dev_gcc\curltut\x64\bin\nghttp2\bin\lib
• Project libcurl, modify libaries:
  • libssl.lib (and remove ssleay32.lib)
  • libcrypto.lib (and remove libeay32.lib)
  • zlibwapi.lib
  • nghttp2.lib
• Build
• Binaries: curltut\curl-7.58.0\build\Win64\VC15\DLL Release - DLL OpenSSL - DLL LibSSH2

Notes

during building if there is an error about missing stdio.h use command ridestina progetti on solution root, select your last windows SDK available