How to Build and Install Libcurl
For many server-side projects that are designed to work with outside resources
at the command line level, curl is a tool that I often have to use. This is
especially true when I am writing programs in C that are designed to be used
specifically with internet resources. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to
compile, build, and install libcurl on your own machine.
Go ahead and clone the curl repository:
git clone git://github.com/bagder/curl.git
Get everything we possibly need to build curl from scratch:
sudo apt-get build-dep curl
Begin the build process by creating the configuration file:
./buildconf
This will do a bunch of fun things and then you'll want to call the configure script:
./configure
Wait for a while while all the checks are made. Since you already installed all
the requirements in the build-dep curl command, this should go smoothly.
Finally, let's make this bad boy:
make
This will do the meat and potatoes compilations. Let this run through and try not to have a seizure while you watch the output. Go get a drink of water or something because it will be a few minutes.
Finally, get all the files transferred to the system directories with the following:
sudo make install
Now you're all set to start using libcurl. Include it in your files with
#include<curl/curl.h>.