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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2004-01-09 09:36:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2004-01-09 09:36:07 +0000 |
| commit | 723722110847cd081e74fbb134adbf8c7abd86c2 (patch) | |
| tree | f64af24b2e0452742ee59251c5fa55dad456f176 | |
| parent | ad36138f52a4f96e2fc49aae22cb943f3b71e2c2 (diff) | |
added a short intro text about this not being for binary package installs
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/INSTALL | 21 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL index 411248660..d8e15f087 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL +++ b/docs/INSTALL @@ -6,14 +6,13 @@ 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 ==== @@ -290,8 +289,6 @@ VMS === (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 @@ -300,7 +297,7 @@ VMS 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 @@ -520,7 +517,3 @@ OpenLDAP 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. |