Compiling php with curl, where is curl installed?

Question

I need to specify a directory when compiling php with --with-curl=

The curl binary is located at /usr/bin/curl

curl -V

Answer 1

For Ubuntu 17.0 +

Adding to @netcoder answer above, If you are using Ubuntu 17+, installing libcurl header files is half of the solution. The installation path in ubuntu 17.0+ is different than the installation path in older Ubuntu version. After installing libcurl, you will still get the "cURL not found" error. You need to perform one extra step (as suggested by @minhajul in the OP comment section).

Add a symlink in /usr/include of the cURL installation folder (cURL installation path in Ubuntu 17.0.4 is /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/curl).

My server was running Ubuntu 17.0.4, the commands to enable cURL support were

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

Then create a link to cURL installation

cd /usr/include
sudo ln -s x86_64-linux-gnu/curl