Commit 72372211 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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added a short intro text about this not being for binary package installs

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                                How To Compile

Curl has been compiled and built on numerous different operating systems.
Installing Binary Packages
==========================

Most systems build curl the same way (unix-style). Continue reading below for
more details if you're one of them.

If you're using Windows (95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP or similar), VMS, RISC OS or OS/2
or cross-compile, you should continue reading from one the paragraphs further
down.
   Lots of people download binary distributions of curl and libcurl. This
   document does not describe how to install curl or libcurl using such a
   binary package. This document describes how to compile, build and install
   curl and libcurl from source code.

UNIX
====
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===
   (The VMS section is in whole contributed by the friendly Nico Baggus)

   This is the first attempt at porting cURL to VMS.

   Curl seems to work with FTP & HTTP other protocols are not tested.  (the
   perl http/ftp testing server supplied as testing too cannot work on VMS
   because vms has no concept of fork(). [ I tried to give it a whack, but
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   SSL stuff has not been ported.

   Telnet has about the same issues as for Win32. When the changes for Win32
   are clear maybe they'l work for VMS too. The basic problem is that select
   are clear maybe they'll work for VMS too. The basic problem is that select
   ONLY works for sockets.

   Marked instances of fopen/[f]stat that might become a problem, especially
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      http://www.openldap.org
   You need to install it with shared libraries, which is enabled when running
   the ldap configure script with "--enable-shared". With my linux 2.0.36
   kernel I also had to disable using threads (with --without-threads),
   because the configure script couldn't figure out my system.