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7                                How To Compile
8
9Installing Binary Packages
10==========================
11
12   Lots of people download binary distributions of curl and libcurl. This
13   document does not describe how to install curl or libcurl using such a
14   binary package. This document describes how to compile, build and install
15   curl and libcurl from source code.
16
17Building from git
18=================
19
20   If you get your code off a git repository, see the GIT-INFO file in the
21   root directory for specific instructions on how to proceed.
22
23UNIX
24====
25   A normal unix installation is made in three or four steps (after you've
26   unpacked the source archive):
27
28        ./configure
29        make
30        make test (optional)
31        make install
32
33   You probably need to be root when doing the last command.
34
35   If you have checked out the sources from the git repository, read the
36   GIT-INFO on how to proceed.
37
38   Get a full listing of all available configure options by invoking it like:
39
40        ./configure --help
41
42   If you want to install curl in a different file hierarchy than /usr/local,
43   you need to specify that already when running configure:
44
45        ./configure --prefix=/path/to/curl/tree
46
47   If you happen to have write permission in that directory, you can do 'make
48   install' without being root. An example of this would be to make a local
49   install in your own home directory:
50
51        ./configure --prefix=$HOME
52        make
53        make install
54
55   The configure script always tries to find a working SSL library unless
56   explicitly told not to. If you have OpenSSL installed in the default search
57   path for your compiler/linker, you don't need to do anything special. If
58   you have OpenSSL installed in /usr/local/ssl, you can run configure like:
59
60        ./configure --with-ssl
61
62   If you have OpenSSL installed somewhere else (for example, /opt/OpenSSL)
63   and you have pkg-config installed, set the pkg-config path first, like this:
64
65        env PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/OpenSSL/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --with-ssl
66
67   Without pkg-config installed, use this:
68
69        ./configure --with-ssl=/opt/OpenSSL
70
71   If you insist on forcing a build without SSL support, even though you may
72   have OpenSSL installed in your system, you can run configure like this:
73
74        ./configure --without-ssl
75
76   If you have OpenSSL installed, but with the libraries in one place and the
77   header files somewhere else, you have to set the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS
78   environment variables prior to running configure.  Something like this
79   should work:
80
81     (with the Bourne shell and its clones):
82
83        CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/ssl/lib" \
84           ./configure
85
86     (with csh, tcsh and their clones):
87
88        env CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/ssl/lib" \
89           ./configure
90
91   If you have shared SSL libs installed in a directory where your run-time
92   linker doesn't find them (which usually causes configure failures), you can
93   provide the -R option to ld on some operating systems to set a hard-coded
94   path to the run-time linker:
95
96        env LDFLAGS=-R/usr/local/ssl/lib ./configure --with-ssl
97
98   MORE OPTIONS
99   ------------
100
101     To force configure to use the standard cc compiler if both cc and gcc are
102     present, run configure like
103
104       CC=cc ./configure
105         or
106       env CC=cc ./configure
107
108     To force a static library compile, disable the shared library creation
109     by running configure like:
110
111       ./configure --disable-shared
112
113     To tell the configure script to skip searching for thread-safe functions,
114     add an option like:
115
116       ./configure --disable-thread
117
118     If you're a curl developer and use gcc, you might want to enable more
119     debug options with the --enable-debug option.
120
121     curl can be built to use a whole range of libraries to provide various
122     useful services, and configure will try to auto-detect a decent
123     default. But if you want to alter it, you can select how to deal with
124     each individual library.
125
126     To build with GnuTLS for SSL/TLS, use both --without-ssl and
127     --with-gnutls.
128
129     To build with Cyassl for SSL/TLS, use both --without-ssl and
130     --with-cyassl.
131
132     To build with NSS for SSL/TLS, use both --without-ssl and --with-nss.
133
134     To build with PolarSSL for SSL/TLS, use both --without-ssl and
135     --with-polarssl.
136
137     To build with axTLS for SSL/TLS, use both --without-ssl and --with-axtls.
138
139     To get GSSAPI support, build with --with-gssapi and have the MIT or
140     Heimdal Kerberos 5 packages installed.
141
142     To get support for SCP and SFTP, build with --with-libssh2 and have
143     libssh2 0.16 or later installed.
144
145     To get Metalink support, build with --with-libmetalink and have the
146     libmetalink packages installed.
147
148   SPECIAL CASES
149   -------------
150   Some versions of uClibc require configuring with CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE=1
151   to get correct large file support.
152
153   The Open Watcom C compiler on Linux requires configuring with the variables:
154
155       ./configure CC=owcc AR="$WATCOM/binl/wlib" AR_FLAGS=-q \
156           RANLIB=/bin/true STRIP="$WATCOM/binl/wstrip" CFLAGS=-Wextra
157
158
159Win32
160=====
161
162   Building Windows DLLs and C run-time (CRT) linkage issues
163   ---------------------------------------------------------
164
165   As a general rule, building a DLL with static CRT linkage is highly
166   discouraged, and intermixing CRTs in the same app is something to
167   avoid at any cost.
168
169   Reading and comprehension of Microsoft Knowledge Base articles
170   KB94248 and KB140584 is a must for any Windows developer. Especially
171   important is full understanding if you are not going to follow the
172   advice given above.
173
174   KB94248  - How To Use the C Run-Time
175              http://support.microsoft.com/kb/94248/en-us
176
177   KB140584 - How to link with the correct C Run-Time (CRT) library
178              http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140584/en-us
179
180   KB190799 - Potential Errors Passing CRT Objects Across DLL Boundaries
181              http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235460
182
183   If your app is misbehaving in some strange way, or it is suffering
184   from memory corruption, before asking for further help, please try
185   first to rebuild every single library your app uses as well as your
186   app using the debug multithreaded dynamic C runtime.
187
188   If you get linkage errors read section 5.7 of the FAQ document.
189
190
191   MingW32
192   -------
193
194   Make sure that MinGW32's bin dir is in the search path, for example:
195
196     set PATH=c:\mingw32\bin;%PATH%
197
198   then run 'mingw32-make mingw32' in the root dir. There are other
199   make targets available to build libcurl with more features, use:
200   'mingw32-make mingw32-zlib' to build with Zlib support;
201   'mingw32-make mingw32-ssl-zlib' to build with SSL and Zlib enabled;
202   'mingw32-make mingw32-ssh2-ssl-zlib' to build with SSH2, SSL, Zlib;
203   'mingw32-make mingw32-ssh2-ssl-sspi-zlib' to build with SSH2, SSL, Zlib
204   and SSPI support.
205
206   If you have any problems linking libraries or finding header files, be sure
207   to verify that the provided "Makefile.m32" files use the proper paths, and
208   adjust as necessary. It is also possible to override these paths with
209   environment variables, for example:
210
211     set ZLIB_PATH=c:\zlib-1.2.8
212     set OPENSSL_PATH=c:\openssl-0.9.8y
213     set LIBSSH2_PATH=c:\libssh2-1.4.3
214
215   ATTENTION: if you want to build with libssh2 support you have to use latest
216   version 0.17 - previous versions will NOT work with 7.17.0 and later!
217   Use 'mingw32-make mingw32-ssh2-ssl-zlib' to build with SSH2 and SSL enabled.
218
219   It is now also possible to build with other LDAP SDKs than MS LDAP;
220   currently it is possible to build with native Win32 OpenLDAP, or with the
221   Novell CLDAP SDK. If you want to use these you need to set these vars:
222
223     set LDAP_SDK=c:\openldap
224     set USE_LDAP_OPENLDAP=1
225
226   or for using the Novell SDK:
227
228     set USE_LDAP_NOVELL=1
229
230   If you want to enable LDAPS support then set LDAPS=1.
231
232   - optional MingW32-built OpenLDAP SDK available from:
233     http://www.gknw.net/mirror/openldap/
234   - optional recent Novell CLDAP SDK available from:
235     http://developer.novell.com/ndk/cldap.htm
236
237
238   Cygwin
239   ------
240
241   Almost identical to the unix installation. Run the configure script in the
242   curl root with 'sh configure'. Make sure you have the sh executable in
243   /bin/ or you'll see the configure fail toward the end.
244
245   Run 'make'
246
247   Dev-Cpp
248   -------
249
250   See the separate INSTALL.devcpp file for details.
251
252   MSVC 6 caveats
253   --------------
254
255   If you use MSVC 6 it is required that you use the February 2003 edition PSDK:
256   http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm
257
258   Building any software with MSVC 6 without having PSDK installed is just
259   asking for trouble down the road once you have released it, you might notice
260   the problems in the first corner or ten miles ahead, depending mostly on your
261   choice of static vs dynamic runtime and third party libraries. Anyone using
262   software built in such way will at some point regret having done so.
263
264   When someone uses MSVC 6 without PSDK he is using a compiler back from 1998.
265
266   If the compiler has been updated with the installation of a service pack as
267   those mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194022 the compiler can be
268   safely used to read source code, translate and make it object code.
269
270   But, even with the service packs mentioned above installed, the resulting
271   software generated in such an environment will be using outdated system
272   header files and libraries with bugs and security issues which have already
273   been addressed and fixed long time ago.
274
275   In order to make use of the updated system headers and fixed libraries
276   for MSVC 6, it is required that 'Platform SDK', PSDK from now onwards,
277   is installed. The specific PSDK that must be installed for MSVC 6 is the
278   February 2003 edition, which is the latest one supporting the MSVC 6 compiler,
279   this PSDK is also known as 'Windows Server 2003 PSDK' and can be downloaded
280   from http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm
281
282   So, building curl and libcurl with MSVC 6 without PSDK is absolutely
283   discouraged for the benefit of anyone using software built in such
284   environment. And it will not be supported in any way, as we could just
285   be hunting bugs which have already been fixed way back in 2003.
286
287   When building with MSVC 6 we attempt to detect if PSDK is not being used,
288   and if this is the case the build process will fail hard with an error
289   message stating that the February 2003 PSDK is required. This is done to
290   protect the unsuspecting and avoid PEBKAC issues.
291
292   Additionally it might happen that a die hard MSVC hacker still wants to
293   build curl and libcurl with MSVC 6 without PSDK installed, even knowing
294   that this is a highly discouraged and unsupported build environment. In
295   this case the brave of heart will be able to build in such an environment
296   with the requisite of defining preprocessor symbol ALLOW_MSVC6_WITHOUT_PSDK
297   in lib/config-win32.h and knowing that LDAP and IPv6 support will be missing.
298
299   MSVC from command line
300   ----------------------
301
302   Run the 'vcvars32.bat' file to get a proper environment. The
303   vcvars32.bat file is part of the Microsoft development environment and
304   you may find it in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\vc98\bin'
305   provided that you installed Visual C/C++ 6 in the default directory.
306
307   Then run 'nmake vc' in curl's root directory.
308
309   If you want to compile with zlib support, you will need to build
310   zlib (http://www.gzip.org/zlib/) as well. Please read the zlib
311   documentation on how to compile zlib. Define the ZLIB_PATH environment
312   variable to the location of zlib.h and zlib.lib, for example:
313
314     set ZLIB_PATH=c:\zlib-1.2.8
315
316   Then run 'nmake vc-zlib' in curl's root directory.
317
318   If you want to compile with SSL support you need the OpenSSL package.
319   Please read the OpenSSL documentation on how to compile and install
320   the OpenSSL libraries.  The build process of OpenSSL generates the
321   libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll files in the out32dll subdirectory in
322   the OpenSSL home directory.  OpenSSL static libraries (libeay32.lib,
323   ssleay32.lib, RSAglue.lib) are created in the out32 subdirectory.
324
325   Before running nmake define the OPENSSL_PATH environment variable with
326   the root/base directory of OpenSSL, for example:
327
328     set OPENSSL_PATH=c:\openssl-0.9.8y
329
330   Then run 'nmake vc-ssl' or 'nmake vc-ssl-dll' in curl's root
331   directory.  'nmake vc-ssl' will create a libcurl static and dynamic
332   libraries in the lib subdirectory, as well as a statically linked
333   version of curl.exe in the src subdirectory.  This statically linked
334   version is a standalone executable not requiring any DLL at
335   runtime. This make method requires that you have the static OpenSSL
336   libraries available in OpenSSL's out32 subdirectory.
337   'nmake vc-ssl-dll' creates the libcurl dynamic library and
338   links curl.exe against libcurl and OpenSSL dynamically.
339   This executable requires libcurl.dll and the OpenSSL DLLs
340   at runtime.
341   Run 'nmake vc-ssl-zlib' to build with both ssl and zlib support.
342
343   MSVC 6 IDE
344   ----------
345
346   A minimal VC++ 6.0 reference workspace (vc6curl.dsw) is available with the
347   source distribution archive to allow proper building of the two included
348   projects, the libcurl library and the curl tool.
349
350   1) Open the vs/vc6/vc6curl.dsw workspace with MSVC6's IDE.
351   2) Select 'Build' from top menu.
352   3) Select 'Batch Build' from dropdown menu.
353   4) Make sure that the eight project configurations are 'checked'.
354   5) Click on the 'Build' button.
355   6) Once the eight project configurations are built you are done.
356
357   Dynamic and static libcurl libraries are built in debug and release flavours,
358   and can be located each one in its own subdirectory, dll-debug, dll-release,
359   lib-debug and lib-release, all of them below the 'vs/vc6/lib' subdirectory.
360
361   In the same way four curl executables are created, each using its respective
362   library. The resulting curl executables are located in its own subdirectory,
363   dll-debug, dll-release, lib-debug and lib-release, below 'vs/vc6/src' subdir.
364
365   These reference VC++ 6.0 configurations are generated using the dynamic CRT.
366
367   Intentionally, these reference VC++ 6.0 projects and configurations don't use
368   third party libraries, such as OpenSSL or Zlib, to allow proper compilation
369   and configuration for all new users without further requirements.
370
371   If you need something more 'involved' you might adjust them for your own use,
372   or explore the world of makefiles described above 'MSVC from command line'.
373
374   Borland C++ compiler
375   ---------------------
376
377   Ensure that your build environment is properly set up to use the compiler
378   and associated tools. PATH environment variable must include the path to
379   bin subdirectory of your compiler installation, eg: c:\Borland\BCC55\bin
380
381   It is advisable to set environment variable BCCDIR to the base path of
382   the compiler installation.
383
384     set BCCDIR=c:\Borland\BCC55
385
386   In order to build a plain vanilla version of curl and libcurl run the
387   following command from curl's root directory:
388
389     make borland
390
391   To build curl and libcurl with zlib and OpenSSL support set environment
392   variables ZLIB_PATH and OPENSSL_PATH to the base subdirectories of the
393   already built zlib and OpenSSL libraries and from curl's root directory
394   run command:
395
396     make borland-ssl-zlib
397
398   libcurl library will be built in 'lib' subdirectory while curl tool
399   is built in 'src' subdirectory. In order to use libcurl library it is
400   advisable to modify compiler's configuration file bcc32.cfg located
401   in c:\Borland\BCC55\bin to reflect the location of libraries include
402   paths for example the '-I' line could result in something like:
403
404     -I"c:\Borland\BCC55\include;c:\curl\include;c:\openssl\inc32"
405
406   bcc3.cfg '-L' line could also be modified to reflect the location of
407   of libcurl library resulting for example:
408
409     -L"c:\Borland\BCC55\lib;c:\curl\lib;c:\openssl\out32"
410
411   In order to build sample program 'simple.c' from the docs\examples
412   subdirectory run following command from mentioned subdirectory:
413
414     bcc32 simple.c libcurl.lib cw32mt.lib
415
416   In order to build sample program simplessl.c an SSL enabled libcurl
417   is required, as well as the OpenSSL libeay32.lib and ssleay32.lib
418   libraries.
419
420
421   OTHER MSVC IDEs
422   ---------------
423
424   If you use VC++, Borland or similar compilers. Include all lib source
425   files in a static lib "project" (all .c and .h files that is).
426   (you should name it libcurl or similar)
427
428   Make the sources in the src/ drawer be a "win32 console application"
429   project. Name it curl.
430
431
432   Disabling Specific Protocols in Win32 builds
433   --------------------------------------------
434
435   The configure utility, unfortunately, is not available for the Windows
436   environment, therefore, you cannot use the various disable-protocol
437   options of the configure utility on this platform.
438
439   However, you can use the following defines to disable specific
440   protocols:
441
442   HTTP_ONLY             disables all protocols except HTTP
443   CURL_DISABLE_FTP      disables FTP
444   CURL_DISABLE_LDAP     disables LDAP
445   CURL_DISABLE_TELNET   disables TELNET
446   CURL_DISABLE_DICT     disables DICT
447   CURL_DISABLE_FILE     disables FILE
448   CURL_DISABLE_TFTP     disables TFTP
449   CURL_DISABLE_HTTP     disables HTTP
450
451   If you want to set any of these defines you have the following
452   possibilities:
453
454   - Modify lib/config-win32.h
455   - Modify lib/curl_setup.h
456   - Modify lib/Makefile.vc6
457   - Add defines to Project/Settings/C/C++/General/Preprocessor Definitions
458     in the vc6libcurl.dsw/vc6libcurl.dsp Visual C++ 6 IDE project.
459
460
461   Using BSD-style lwIP instead of Winsock TCP/IP stack in Win32 builds
462   --------------------------------------------------------------------
463
464   In order to compile libcurl and curl using BSD-style lwIP TCP/IP stack
465   it is necessary to make definition of preprocessor symbol USE_LWIPSOCK
466   visible to libcurl and curl compilation processes. To set this definition
467   you have the following alternatives:
468
469   - Modify lib/config-win32.h and src/config-win32.h
470   - Modify lib/Makefile.vc6
471   - Add definition to Project/Settings/C/C++/General/Preprocessor Definitions
472     in the vc6libcurl.dsw/vc6libcurl.dsp Visual C++ 6 IDE project.
473
474   Once that libcurl has been built with BSD-style lwIP TCP/IP stack support,
475   in order to use it with your program it is mandatory that your program
476   includes lwIP header file <lwip/opt.h> (or another lwIP header that includes
477   this) before including any libcurl header. Your program does not need the
478   USE_LWIPSOCK preprocessor definition which is for libcurl internals only.
479
480   Compilation has been verified with lwIP 1.4.0 and contrib-1.4.0 from:
481
482   http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lwip/lwip-1.4.0.zip
483   http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lwip/contrib-1.4.0.zip
484
485   This BSD-style lwIP TCP/IP stack support must be considered experimental
486   given that it has been verified that lwIP 1.4.0 still needs some polish,
487   and libcurl might yet need some additional adjustment, caveat emptor.
488
489   Important static libcurl usage note
490   -----------------------------------
491
492   When building an application that uses the static libcurl library, you must
493   add '-DCURL_STATICLIB' to your CFLAGS.  Otherwise the linker will look for
494   dynamic import symbols.
495
496
497Apple iOS and Mac OS X
498======================
499   On recent Apple operating systems, curl can be built to use Apple's
500   SSL/TLS implementation, Secure Transport, instead of OpenSSL. To build with
501   Secure Transport for SSL/TLS, use the configure option --with-darwinssl. (It
502   is not necessary to use the option --without-ssl.) This feature requires iOS
503   5.0 or later, or OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") or later.
504
505   When Secure Transport is in use, the curl options --cacert and --capath and
506   their libcurl equivalents, will be ignored, because Secure Transport uses
507   the certificates stored in the Keychain to evaluate whether or not to trust
508   the server. This, of course, includes the root certificates that ship with
509   the OS. The --cert and --engine options, and their libcurl equivalents, are
510   currently unimplemented in curl with Secure Transport.
511
512   For OS X users: In OS X 10.8 ("Mountain Lion"), Apple made a major
513   overhaul to the Secure Transport API that, among other things, added
514   support for the newer TLS 1.1 and 1.2 protocols. To get curl to support
515   TLS 1.1 and 1.2, you must build curl on Mountain Lion or later, or by
516   using the equivalent SDK. If you set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
517   environmental variable to an earlier version of OS X prior to building curl,
518   then curl will use the new Secure Transport API on Mountain Lion and later,
519   and fall back on the older API when the same curl binary is executed on
520   older cats. For example, running these commands in curl's directory in the
521   shell will build the code such that it will run on cats as old as OS X 10.6
522   ("Snow Leopard") (using bash):
523
524      export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET="10.6"
525      ./configure --with-darwinssl
526      make
527
528
529IBM OS/2
530========
531   Building under OS/2 is not much different from building under unix.
532   You need:
533
534      - emx 0.9d
535      - GNU make
536      - GNU patch
537      - ksh
538      - GNU bison
539      - GNU file utilities
540      - GNU sed
541      - autoconf 2.13
542
543   If you want to build with OpenSSL or OpenLDAP support, you'll need to
544   download those libraries, too. Dirk Ohme has done some work to port SSL
545   libraries under OS/2, but it looks like he doesn't care about emx.  You'll
546   find his patches on: http://come.to/Dirk_Ohme
547
548   If during the linking you get an error about _errno being an undefined
549   symbol referenced from the text segment, you need to add -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
550   in your definitions.
551
552   If everything seems to work fine but there's no curl.exe, you need to add
553   -Zexe to your linker flags.
554
555   If you're getting huge binaries, probably your makefiles have the -g in
556   CFLAGS.
557
558
559VMS
560===
561   (The VMS section is in whole contributed by the friendly Nico Baggus)
562
563   Curl seems to work with FTP & HTTP other protocols are not tested.  (the
564   perl http/ftp testing server supplied as testing too cannot work on VMS
565   because vms has no concept of fork(). [ I tried to give it a whack, but
566   that's of no use.
567
568   SSL stuff has not been ported.
569
570   Telnet has about the same issues as for Win32. When the changes for Win32
571   are clear maybe they'll work for VMS too. The basic problem is that select
572   ONLY works for sockets.
573
574   Marked instances of fopen/[f]stat that might become a problem, especially
575   for non stream files. In this regard, the files opened for writing will be
576   created stream/lf and will thus be safe. Just keep in mind that non-binary
577   read/wring from/to files will have a records size limit of 32767 bytes
578   imposed.
579
580   Stat to get the size of the files is again only safe for stream files &
581   fixed record files without implied CC.
582
583   -- My guess is that only allowing access to stream files is the quickest
584   way to get around the most issues. Therefore all files need to to be
585   checked to be sure they will be stream/lf before processing them.  This is
586   the easiest way out, I know. The reason for this is that code that needs to
587   report the filesize will become a pain in the ass otherwise.
588
589   Exit status.... Well we needed something done here,
590
591   VMS has a structured exist status:
592   | 3  |       2    |     1       |  0|
593   |1098|765432109876|5432109876543|210|
594   +----+------------+-------------+---+
595   |Ctrl|  Facility  | Error code  |sev|
596   +----+------------+-------------+---+
597
598   With the Ctrl-bits an application can tell if part or the whole message has
599   already been printed from the program, DCL doesn't need to print it again.
600
601   Facility - basically the program ID. A code assigned to the program
602   the name can be fetched from external or internal message libraries
603   Error code - the err codes assigned by the application
604   Sev. - severity: Even = error, off = non error
605      0 = Warning
606      1 = Success
607      2 = Error
608      3 = Information
609      4 = Fatal
610      <5-7> reserved.
611
612   This all presents itself with:
613   %<FACILITY>-<Sev>-<Errorname>, <Error message>
614
615   See also the src/curlmsg.msg file, it has the source for the messages In
616   src/main.c a section is devoted to message status values, the globalvalues
617   create symbols with certain values, referenced from a compiled message
618   file. Have all exit function use a exit status derived from a translation
619   table with the compiled message codes.
620
621   This was all compiled with:
622
623      Compaq C V6.2-003 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.1-1H2
624
625   So far for porting notes as of:
626   13-jul-2001
627   N. Baggus
628
629
630QNX
631===
632   (This section was graciously brought to us by David Bentham)
633
634   As QNX is targeted for resource constrained environments, the QNX headers
635   set conservative limits. This includes the FD_SETSIZE macro, set by default
636   to 32. Socket descriptors returned within the CURL library may exceed this,
637   resulting in memory faults/SIGSEGV crashes when passed into select(..)
638   calls using fd_set macros.
639
640   A good all-round solution to this is to override the default when building
641   libcurl, by overriding CFLAGS during configure, example
642   #  configure CFLAGS='-DFD_SETSIZE=64 -g -O2'
643
644
645RISC OS
646=======
647   The library can be cross-compiled using gccsdk as follows:
648
649        CC=riscos-gcc AR=riscos-ar RANLIB='riscos-ar -s' ./configure \
650             --host=arm-riscos-aof --without-random --disable-shared
651        make
652
653   where riscos-gcc and riscos-ar are links to the gccsdk tools.
654   You can then link your program with curl/lib/.libs/libcurl.a
655
656
657AmigaOS
658=======
659   (This section was graciously brought to us by Diego Casorran)
660
661   To build cURL/libcurl on AmigaOS just type 'make amiga' ...
662
663   What you need is:    (not tested with others versions)
664
665        GeekGadgets / gcc 2.95.3 (http://www.geekgadgets.org/)
666
667        AmiTCP SDK v4.3 (http://www.aminet.net/comm/tcp/AmiTCP-SDK-4.3.lha)
668
669        Native Developer Kit (http://www.amiga.com/3.9/download/NDK3.9.lha)
670
671   As no ixemul.library is required you will be able to build it for
672   WarpOS/PowerPC (not tested by me), as well a MorphOS version should be
673   possible with no problems.
674
675   To enable SSL support, you need a OpenSSL native version (without ixemul),
676   you can find a precompiled package at http://amiga.sourceforge.net/OpenSSL/
677
678
679NetWare
680=======
681   To compile curl.nlm / libcurl.nlm you need:
682   - either any gcc / nlmconv, or CodeWarrior 7 PDK 4 or later.
683   - gnu make and awk running on the platform you compile on;
684     native Win32 versions can be downloaded from:
685     http://www.gknw.net/development/prgtools/
686   - recent Novell LibC SDK available from:
687     http://developer.novell.com/ndk/libc.htm
688   - or recent Novell CLib SDK available from:
689     http://developer.novell.com/ndk/clib.htm
690   - optional recent Novell CLDAP SDK available from:
691     http://developer.novell.com/ndk/cldap.htm
692   - optional zlib sources (static or dynamic linking with zlib.imp);
693     sources with NetWare Makefile can be obtained from:
694     http://www.gknw.net/mirror/zlib/
695   - optional OpenSSL sources (version 0.9.8 or later build with BSD sockets);
696     you can find precompiled packages at:
697     http://www.gknw.net/development/ossl/netware/
698     for CLIB-based builds OpenSSL 0.9.8h or later is required  - earlier versions
699     don't support building with CLIB BSD sockets.
700   - optional SSH2 sources (version 0.17 or later);
701
702   Set a search path to your compiler, linker and tools; on Linux make
703   sure that the var OSTYPE contains the string 'linux'; set the var
704   NDKBASE to point to the base of your Novell NDK; and then type
705   'make netware' from the top source directory; other targets available
706   are 'netware-ssl', 'netware-ssl-zlib', 'netware-zlib' and 'netware-ares';
707   if you need other combinations you can control the build with the
708   environment variables WITH_SSL, WITH_ZLIB, WITH_ARES, WITH_SSH2, and
709   ENABLE_IPV6; you can set LINK_STATIC=1 to link curl.nlm statically.
710   By default LDAP support is enabled, however currently you will need a patch
711   in order to use the CLDAP NDK with BSD sockets (Novell Bug 300237):
712   http://www.gknw.net/test/curl/cldap_ndk/ldap_ndk.diff
713   I found on some Linux systems (RH9) that OS detection didn't work although
714   a 'set | grep OSTYPE' shows the var present and set; I simply overwrote it
715   with 'OSTYPE=linux-rh9-gnu' and the detection in the Makefile worked...
716   Any help in testing appreciated!
717   Builds automatically created 8 times a day from current git are here:
718   http://www.gknw.net/mirror/curl/autobuilds/
719   the status of these builds can be viewed at the autobuild table:
720   http://curl.haxx.se/dev/builds.html
721
722
723eCos
724====
725   curl does not use the eCos build system, so you must first build eCos
726   separately, then link curl to the resulting eCos library.  Here's a sample
727   configure line to do so on an x86 Linux box targeting x86:
728
729   GCCLIB=`gcc -print-libgcc-file-name` && \
730   CFLAGS="-D__ECOS=1 -nostdinc -I$ECOS_INSTALL/include \
731    -I`dirname $GCCLIB`/include" \
732   LDFLAGS="-nostdlib -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,-static \
733    -L$ECOS_INSTALL/lib -Ttarget.ld -ltarget" \
734   ./configure --host=i386 --disable-shared \
735    --without-ssl --without-zlib --disable-manual --disable-ldap
736
737   In most cases, eCos users will be using libcurl from within a custom
738   embedded application.  Using the standard 'curl' executable from
739   within eCos means facing the limitation of the standard eCos C
740   startup code which does not allow passing arguments in main().  To
741   run 'curl' from eCos and have it do something useful, you will need
742   to either modify the eCos startup code to pass in some arguments, or
743   modify the curl application itself to retrieve its arguments from
744   some location set by the bootloader or hard-code them.
745
746   Something like the following patch could be used to hard-code some
747   arguments.  The MTAB_ENTRY line mounts a RAM disk as the root filesystem
748   (without mounting some kind of filesystem, eCos errors out all file
749   operations which curl does not take to well).  The next section synthesizes
750   some command-line arguments for curl to use, in this case to direct curl
751   to read further arguments from a file.  It then creates that file on the
752   RAM disk and places within it a URL to download: a file: URL that
753   just happens to point to the configuration file itself.  The results
754   of running curl in this way is the contents of the configuration file
755   printed to the console.
756
757--- src/main.c  19 Jul 2006 19:09:56 -0000    1.363
758+++ src/main.c  24 Jul 2006 21:37:23 -0000
759@@ -4286,11 +4286,31 @@
760 }
761
762
763+#ifdef __ECOS
764+#include <cyg/fileio/fileio.h>
765+MTAB_ENTRY( testfs_mte1,
766+                   "/",
767+                   "ramfs",
768+                   "",
769+                   0);
770+#endif
771
772 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
773 {
774   int res;
775   struct Configurable config;
776+#ifdef __ECOS
777+  char *args[] = {"ecos-curl", "-K", "curlconf.txt"};
778+  FILE *f;
779+  argc = sizeof(args)/sizeof(args[0]);
780+  argv = args;
781+
782+  f = fopen("curlconf.txt", "w");
783+  if (f) {
784+    fprintf(f, "--url file:curlconf.txt");
785+    fclose(f);
786+  }
787+#endif
788   memset(&config, 0, sizeof(struct Configurable));
789
790   config.errors = stderr; /* default errors to stderr */
791
792
793Minix
794=====
795   curl can be compiled on Minix 3 using gcc or ACK (starting with
796   ver. 3.1.3).  Ensure that GNU gawk and bash are both installed and
797   available in the PATH.
798
799   ACK
800   ---
801   Increase the heap sizes of the compiler with the command:
802
803     binsizes xxl
804
805   then configure and compile curl with:
806
807     ./configure CC=cc LD=cc AR=/usr/bin/aal GREP=grep \
808      CPPFLAGS='-D_POSIX_SOURCE=1 -I/usr/local/include'
809     make
810     chmem =256000 src/curl
811
812   GCC
813   ---
814   Make sure gcc is in your PATH with the command:
815
816     export PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:$PATH
817
818   then configure and compile curl with:
819
820     ./configure CC=gcc AR=/usr/gnu/bin/gar GREP=grep
821     make
822     chmem =256000 src/curl
823
824
825Symbian OS
826==========
827   The Symbian OS port uses the Symbian build system to compile.  From the
828   packages/Symbian/group/ directory, run:
829
830      bldmake bldfiles
831      abld build
832
833   to compile and install curl and libcurl using SBSv1. If your Symbian
834   SDK doesn't include support for P.I.P.S., you will need to contact
835   your SDK vendor to obtain that first.
836
837
838VxWorks
839========
840   Build for VxWorks is performed using cross compilation.
841   That means you build on Windows machine using VxWorks tools and
842   run the built image on the VxWorks device.
843
844   To build libcurl for VxWorks you need:
845
846      - CYGWIN (free, http://cygwin.com/)
847      - Wind River Workbench (commercial)
848
849   If you have CYGWIN and Workbench installed on you machine
850   follow after next steps:
851
852    1. Open the Command Prompt window and change directory ('cd')
853       to the libcurl 'lib' folder.
854    2. Add CYGWIN 'bin' folder to the PATH environment variable.
855       For example, type 'set PATH=C:/embedded/cygwin/bin;%PATH%'.
856    3. Adjust environment variables defined in 'Environment' section
857       of the Makefile.vxworks file to point to your software folders.
858    4. Build the libcurl by typing 'make -f ./Makefile.vxworks'
859
860   As a result the libcurl.a library should be created in the 'lib' folder.
861   To clean the build results type 'make -f ./Makefile.vxworks clean'.
862
863
864Android
865=======
866   Method using the static makefile:
867      - see the build notes in the packages/Android/Android.mk file.
868
869   Method using a configure cross-compile (tested with Android NDK r7c, r8):
870      - prepare the toolchain of the Android NDK for standalone use; this can
871        be done by invoking the script:
872        ./build/tools/make-standalone-toolchain.sh
873        which creates a usual cross-compile toolchain. Lets assume that you put
874        this toolchain below /opt then invoke configure with something like:
875        export PATH=/opt/arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3/bin:$PATH
876        ./configure --host=arm-linux-androideabi [more configure options]
877        make
878      - if you want to compile directly from our GIT repo you might run into
879        this issue with older automake stuff:
880        checking host system type...
881        Invalid configuration `arm-linux-androideabi':
882        system `androideabi' not recognized
883        configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub arm-linux-androideabi failed
884        this issue can be fixed with using more recent versions of config.sub
885        and config.guess which can be obtained here:
886        http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=tree
887        you need to replace your system-own versions which usually can be
888        found in your automake folder:
889        find /usr -name config.sub
890
891   Wrapper for pkg-config
892      - In order to make proper use of pkg-config so that configure is able to
893        find all dependencies you should create a wrapper script for pkg-config;
894        file /opt/arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-pkg-config:
895
896        #!/bin/sh
897        SYSROOT=$(dirname ${0%/*})/sysroot
898        export PKG_CONFIG_DIR=
899        export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=${SYSROOT}/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:${SYSROOT}/usr/share/pkgconfig
900        export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR=${SYSROOT}
901        exec pkg-config "$@"
902
903        also create a copy or symlink with name arm-unknown-linux-androideabi-pkg-config.
904
905
906CROSS COMPILE
907=============
908   (This section was graciously brought to us by Jim Duey, with additions by
909   Dan Fandrich)
910
911   Download and unpack the cURL package.
912
913   'cd' to the new directory. (e.g. cd curl-7.12.3)
914
915   Set environment variables to point to the cross-compile toolchain and call
916   configure with any options you need.  Be sure and specify the '--host' and
917   '--build' parameters at configuration time.  The following script is an
918   example of cross-compiling for the IBM 405GP PowerPC processor using the
919   toolchain from MonteVista for Hardhat Linux.
920
921   (begin script)
922
923   #! /bin/sh
924
925   export PATH=$PATH:/opt/hardhat/devkit/ppc/405/bin
926   export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/hardhat/devkit/ppc/405/target/usr/include"
927   export AR=ppc_405-ar
928   export AS=ppc_405-as
929   export LD=ppc_405-ld
930   export RANLIB=ppc_405-ranlib
931   export CC=ppc_405-gcc
932   export NM=ppc_405-nm
933
934   ./configure --target=powerpc-hardhat-linux \
935        --host=powerpc-hardhat-linux \
936        --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu \
937        --prefix=/opt/hardhat/devkit/ppc/405/target/usr/local \
938        --exec-prefix=/usr/local
939
940   (end script)
941
942   You may also need to provide a parameter like '--with-random=/dev/urandom'
943   to configure as it cannot detect the presence of a random number
944   generating device for a target system.  The '--prefix' parameter
945   specifies where cURL will be installed.  If 'configure' completes
946   successfully, do 'make' and 'make install' as usual.
947
948   In some cases, you may be able to simplify the above commands to as
949   little as:
950
951       ./configure --host=ARCH-OS
952
953
954REDUCING SIZE
955=============
956   There are a number of configure options that can be used to reduce the
957   size of libcurl for embedded applications where binary size is an
958   important factor.  First, be sure to set the CFLAGS variable when
959   configuring with any relevant compiler optimization flags to reduce the
960   size of the binary.  For gcc, this would mean at minimum the -Os option,
961   and potentially the -march=X and -mdynamic-no-pic options as well, e.g.
962
963      ./configure CFLAGS='-Os' ...
964
965   Note that newer compilers often produce smaller code than older versions
966   due to improved optimization.
967
968   Be sure to specify as many --disable- and --without- flags on the configure
969   command-line as you can to disable all the libcurl features that you
970   know your application is not going to need.  Besides specifying the
971   --disable-PROTOCOL flags for all the types of URLs your application
972   will not use, here are some other flags that can reduce the size of the
973   library:
974
975     --disable-ares (disables support for the C-ARES DNS library)
976     --disable-cookies (disables support for HTTP cookies)
977     --disable-crypto-auth (disables HTTP cryptographic authentication)
978     --disable-ipv6 (disables support for IPv6)
979     --disable-manual (disables support for the built-in documentation)
980     --disable-proxy (disables support for HTTP and SOCKS proxies)
981     --disable-verbose (eliminates debugging strings and error code strings)
982     --enable-hidden-symbols (eliminates unneeded symbols in the shared library)
983     --without-libidn (disables support for the libidn DNS library)
984     --without-librtmp (disables support for RTMP)
985     --without-ssl (disables support for SSL/TLS)
986     --without-zlib (disables support for on-the-fly decompression)
987
988   The GNU compiler and linker have a number of options that can reduce the
989   size of the libcurl dynamic libraries on some platforms even further.
990   Specify them by providing appropriate CFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables on the
991   configure command-line, e.g.
992     CFLAGS="-Os -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections \
993             -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables" \
994     LDFLAGS="-Wl,-s -Wl,-Bsymbolic -Wl,--gc-sections"
995
996   Be sure also to strip debugging symbols from your binaries after
997   compiling using 'strip' (or the appropriate variant if cross-compiling).
998   If space is really tight, you may be able to remove some unneeded
999   sections of the shared library using the -R option to objcopy (e.g. the
1000   .comment section).
1001
1002   Using these techniques it is possible to create a basic HTTP-only shared
1003   libcurl library for i386 Linux platforms that is only 114 KiB in size, and
1004   an FTP-only library that is 115 KiB in size (as of libcurl version 7.35.0,
1005   using gcc 4.8.2).
1006
1007   You may find that statically linking libcurl to your application will
1008   result in a lower total size than dynamically linking.
1009
1010   Note that the curl test harness can detect the use of some, but not all, of
1011   the --disable statements suggested above. Use will cause tests relying on
1012   those features to fail.  The test harness can be manually forced to skip
1013   the relevant tests by specifying certain key words on the runtests.pl
1014   command line.  Following is a list of appropriate key words:
1015
1016     --disable-cookies          !cookies
1017     --disable-manual           !--manual
1018     --disable-proxy            !HTTP\ proxy !proxytunnel !SOCKS4 !SOCKS5
1019
1020
1021PORTS
1022=====
1023   This is a probably incomplete list of known hardware and operating systems
1024   that curl has been compiled for. If you know a system curl compiles and
1025   runs on, that isn't listed, please let us know!
1026
1027        - Alpha DEC OSF 4
1028        - Alpha Digital UNIX v3.2
1029        - Alpha FreeBSD 4.1, 4.5
1030        - Alpha Linux 2.2, 2.4
1031        - Alpha NetBSD 1.5.2
1032        - Alpha OpenBSD 3.0
1033        - Alpha OpenVMS V7.1-1H2
1034        - Alpha Tru64 v5.0 5.1
1035        - AVR32 Linux
1036        - ARM Android 1.5, 2.1, 2.3, 3.2, 4.x
1037        - ARM INTEGRITY
1038        - ARM iOS
1039        - Cell Linux
1040        - Cell Cell OS
1041        - HP-PA HP-UX 9.X 10.X 11.X
1042        - HP-PA Linux
1043        - HP3000 MPE/iX
1044        - MicroBlaze uClinux
1045        - MIPS IRIX 6.2, 6.5
1046        - MIPS Linux
1047        - OS/400
1048        - Pocket PC/Win CE 3.0
1049        - Power AIX 3.2.5, 4.2, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 5.1, 5.2
1050        - PowerPC Darwin 1.0
1051        - PowerPC INTEGRITY
1052        - PowerPC Linux
1053        - PowerPC Mac OS 9
1054        - PowerPC Mac OS X
1055        - SH4 Linux 2.6.X
1056        - SH4 OS21
1057        - SINIX-Z v5
1058        - Sparc Linux
1059        - Sparc Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10
1060        - Sparc SunOS 4.1.X
1061        - StrongARM (and other ARM) RISC OS 3.1, 4.02
1062        - StrongARM/ARM7/ARM9 Linux 2.4, 2.6
1063        - StrongARM NetBSD 1.4.1
1064        - Symbian OS (P.I.P.S.) 9.x
1065        - TPF
1066        - Ultrix 4.3a
1067        - UNICOS 9.0
1068        - i386 BeOS
1069        - i386 DOS
1070        - i386 eCos 1.3.1
1071        - i386 Esix 4.1
1072        - i386 FreeBSD
1073        - i386 HURD
1074        - i386 Haiku OS
1075        - i386 Linux 1.3, 2.0, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.6
1076        - i386 Mac OS X
1077        - i386 MINIX 3.1
1078        - i386 NetBSD
1079        - i386 Novell NetWare
1080        - i386 OS/2
1081        - i386 OpenBSD
1082        - i386 QNX 6
1083        - i386 SCO unix
1084        - i386 Solaris 2.7
1085        - i386 Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003
1086        - i486 ncr-sysv4.3.03 (NCR MP-RAS)
1087        - ia64 Linux 2.3.99
1088        - m68k AmigaOS 3
1089        - m68k Linux
1090        - m68k uClinux
1091        - m68k OpenBSD
1092        - m88k dg-dgux5.4R3.00
1093        - s390 Linux
1094        - x86_64 Linux
1095        - XScale/PXA250 Linux 2.4
1096        - Nios II uClinux
1097
1098Useful URLs
1099===========
1100
1101axTLS        http://axtls.sourceforge.net/
1102c-ares       http://c-ares.haxx.se/
1103GNU GSS      http://www.gnu.org/software/gss/
1104GnuTLS       http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/
1105Heimdal      http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/
1106libidn       http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/
1107libmetalink  https://launchpad.net/libmetalink/
1108libssh2      http://www.libssh2.org/
1109MIT Kerberos http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/dist/
1110NSS          http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
1111OpenLDAP     http://www.openldap.org/
1112OpenSSL      http://www.openssl.org/
1113PolarSSL     http://polarssl.org/
1114yassl        http://www.yassl.com/
1115Zlib         http://www.zlib.net/
1116
1117MingW        http://www.mingw.org/
1118MinGW-w64    http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
1119OpenWatcom   http://www.openwatcom.org/
1120