Notes on building curl 7.21.3 with Visual Studio 2005

curl-7.21.3-SPNEGO-VC8-build-notes.txt

This branch has a version of curl-7.21.3 with a new patch to do SPNEGO/GSS-API Negotiate via Windows SSPI applied to it, and modified make files for VC++ 8 (Visual Studio 2005). I've successfully built a working libcurl.dll and curl.exe with SSL and zlib using it.

    https://github.com/zcopley/curl/tree/vs2005

External dependency notes
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* SSL - I used OpenSSL 1.0.0c (Win32OpenSSL-1_0_0c.exe) from here: http://www.shininglightpro.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

* zLib - This one is tricky. I needed to compile this from source, because none of the precompiled DLLs floating around would work. I used v1.2.5 from here: http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz The magic incantation is to build it (from the root zLib source dir) is:

    nmake -f win32/Makefile.msc OBJA="inffast.obj" 

Note: to get nmake to run, you have to first run the environment setup batch file, vsvars32.bat. On my system it was here:

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat

Once that compiles cleanly I made a zlib distribution-ish directory for curl to link against and copied these files into it (looks like this):

   zlib/
     zlib1.dll
     zlib1.pdb
   zlib/include/
       zconf.h
       zlib.h
   zlib/lib/
       zdll.exp   
       zdll.lib
       zlib.lib
       zlib.pdb
 
Compiling Curl
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Edit the patched Makefile.vc8 in the lib and src directories to set the path to SSL and zLib libraries.

To build the whole #! as a bunch of independent .dlls use the Makefile in the top level curl src dir with this target:

    nmake -f Makefile vc-dll-ssl-dll-zlib-dll
   
That should build everything, and you should end up with curl.exe in the curl-7.21.3/src and libcurl.dll and libcurl_imp.lib in curl-7.21.3/lib.

Copy those files into a new directory for testing. You'll also need the zlib1.dll and OpenSSL dlls... Oh, and because this is VC8 you'll need the C runtime dll, msvcr80.dll, which should be somewhere in your Visual Studio directory tree. I think you can also get it by downloading the "Redistibutables" package from MSFT:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=9B2DA534-3E03-4391-8A4D-074B9F2BC1BF&displaylang=en

Okay, you should end up with a directory with these dlls and curl.exe in it:

    curl.exe
    libcurl.dll
    libcurl_imp.lib
    libeay32.dll
    msvcr80.dll
    ssleay32.dll
    zlib1.dll

And you can finally run curl.exe to give it a try.