Building libcurl with SSL support on Windows

Question

I\'m using libcurl in a Win32 C++ application.

I have the curllib.vcproj project added to my solution and set my other projects to depend on it.

How do I bui

Answer 1

If you build with Visual Studio IDE and get 58 odd warnings as the likes of

"inconsistent dll linkage curl_global_init / curl_msnprintf /..."

you should add CURL_STATICLIB to the preproccessor definitions.

so the entire definition line should look like:

USE_SSLEAY;USE_OPENSSL;CURL_STATICLIB.

With this all the warning will disappear.

Some would ignore the warnings and go on using the libs, but then will get corresponding *error*s as the likes of curl_global_init / curl_msnprintf. It can be very annoying.

Hope it can help somebody.