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diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL index 2c5e52b2f..0006918a9 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL +++ b/docs/INSTALL @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Building from git UNIX ==== + A normal unix installation is made in three or four steps (after you've unpacked the source archive): @@ -147,6 +148,7 @@ UNIX SPECIAL CASES ------------- + Some versions of uClibc require configuring with CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE=1 to get correct large file support. @@ -155,7 +157,6 @@ UNIX ./configure CC=owcc AR="$WATCOM/binl/wlib" AR_FLAGS=-q \ RANLIB=/bin/true STRIP="$WATCOM/binl/wstrip" CFLAGS=-Wextra - Win32 ===== @@ -187,7 +188,6 @@ Win32 If you get linkage errors read section 5.7 of the FAQ document. - MingW32 ------- @@ -234,7 +234,6 @@ Win32 - optional recent Novell CLDAP SDK available from: http://developer.novell.com/ndk/cldap.htm - Cygwin ------ @@ -389,7 +388,6 @@ Win32 is required, as well as the OpenSSL libeay32.lib and ssleay32.lib libraries. - OTHER MSVC IDEs --------------- @@ -400,7 +398,6 @@ Win32 Make the sources in the src/ drawer be a "win32 console application" project. Name it curl. - Disabling Specific Protocols in Win32 builds -------------------------------------------- @@ -429,7 +426,6 @@ Win32 - Add defines to Project/Settings/C/C++/General/Preprocessor Definitions in the vc6libcurl.dsw/vc6libcurl.dsp Visual C++ 6 IDE project. - Using BSD-style lwIP instead of Winsock TCP/IP stack in Win32 builds -------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -465,9 +461,9 @@ Win32 add '-DCURL_STATICLIB' to your CFLAGS. Otherwise the linker will look for dynamic import symbols. - Apple iOS and Mac OS X ====================== + On recent Apple operating systems, curl can be built to use Apple's SSL/TLS implementation, Secure Transport, instead of OpenSSL. To build with Secure Transport for SSL/TLS, use the configure option --with-darwinssl. (It @@ -497,9 +493,9 @@ Apple iOS and Mac OS X ./configure --with-darwinssl make - IBM OS/2 ======== + Building under OS/2 is not much different from building under unix. You need: @@ -527,9 +523,9 @@ IBM OS/2 If you're getting huge binaries, probably your makefiles have the -g in CFLAGS. - VMS === + (The VMS section is in whole contributed by the friendly Nico Baggus) Curl seems to work with FTP & HTTP other protocols are not tested. (the @@ -574,6 +570,7 @@ VMS the name can be fetched from external or internal message libraries Error code - the err codes assigned by the application Sev. - severity: Even = error, off = non error + 0 = Warning 1 = Success 2 = Error @@ -595,12 +592,13 @@ VMS Compaq C V6.2-003 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.1-1H2 So far for porting notes as of: + 13-jul-2001 N. Baggus - QNX === + (This section was graciously brought to us by David Bentham) As QNX is targeted for resource constrained environments, the QNX headers @@ -611,11 +609,12 @@ QNX A good all-round solution to this is to override the default when building libcurl, by overriding CFLAGS during configure, example - # configure CFLAGS='-DFD_SETSIZE=64 -g -O2' + # configure CFLAGS='-DFD_SETSIZE=64 -g -O2' RISC OS ======= + The library can be cross-compiled using gccsdk as follows: CC=riscos-gcc AR=riscos-ar RANLIB='riscos-ar -s' ./configure \ @@ -625,9 +624,9 @@ RISC OS where riscos-gcc and riscos-ar are links to the gccsdk tools. You can then link your program with curl/lib/.libs/libcurl.a - AmigaOS ======= + (This section was graciously brought to us by Diego Casorran) To build cURL/libcurl on AmigaOS just type 'make amiga' ... @@ -647,10 +646,11 @@ AmigaOS To enable SSL support, you need a OpenSSL native version (without ixemul), you can find a precompiled package at http://amiga.sourceforge.net/OpenSSL/ - NetWare ======= + To compile curl.nlm / libcurl.nlm you need: + - either any gcc / nlmconv, or CodeWarrior 7 PDK 4 or later. - gnu make and awk running on the platform you compile on; native Win32 versions can be downloaded from: @@ -691,9 +691,9 @@ NetWare the status of these builds can be viewed at the autobuild table: http://curl.haxx.se/dev/builds.html - eCos ==== + curl does not use the eCos build system, so you must first build eCos separately, then link curl to the resulting eCos library. Here's a sample configure line to do so on an x86 Linux box targeting x86: @@ -761,9 +761,9 @@ eCos config.errors = stderr; /* default errors to stderr */ - Minix ===== + curl can be compiled on Minix 3 using gcc or ACK (starting with ver. 3.1.3). Ensure that GNU gawk and bash are both installed and available in the PATH. @@ -793,9 +793,9 @@ Minix make chmem =256000 src/curl - Symbian OS ========== + The Symbian OS port uses the Symbian build system to compile. From the packages/Symbian/group/ directory, run: @@ -806,9 +806,9 @@ Symbian OS SDK doesn't include support for P.I.P.S., you will need to contact your SDK vendor to obtain that first. - VxWorks ======== + Build for VxWorks is performed using cross compilation. That means you build on Windows machine using VxWorks tools and run the built image on the VxWorks device. @@ -832,13 +832,15 @@ VxWorks As a result the libcurl.a library should be created in the 'lib' folder. To clean the build results type 'make -f ./Makefile.vxworks clean'. - Android ======= + Method using the static makefile: + - see the build notes in the packages/Android/Android.mk file. Method using a configure cross-compile (tested with Android NDK r7c, r8): + - prepare the toolchain of the Android NDK for standalone use; this can be done by invoking the script: ./build/tools/make-standalone-toolchain.sh @@ -860,7 +862,8 @@ Android found in your automake folder: find /usr -name config.sub - Wrapper for pkg-config + Wrapper for pkg-config: + - In order to make proper use of pkg-config so that configure is able to find all dependencies you should create a wrapper script for pkg-config; file /opt/arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-pkg-config: @@ -874,9 +877,9 @@ Android also create a copy or symlink with name arm-unknown-linux-androideabi-pkg-config. - CROSS COMPILE ============= + (This section was graciously brought to us by Jim Duey, with additions by Dan Fandrich) @@ -922,9 +925,9 @@ CROSS COMPILE ./configure --host=ARCH-OS - REDUCING SIZE ============= + There are a number of configure options that can be used to reduce the size of libcurl for embedded applications where binary size is an important factor. First, be sure to set the CFLAGS variable when @@ -961,6 +964,7 @@ REDUCING SIZE size of the libcurl dynamic libraries on some platforms even further. Specify them by providing appropriate CFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables on the configure command-line, e.g. + CFLAGS="-Os -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections \ -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables" \ LDFLAGS="-Wl,-s -Wl,-Bsymbolic -Wl,--gc-sections" @@ -989,9 +993,9 @@ REDUCING SIZE --disable-manual !--manual --disable-proxy !HTTP\ proxy !proxytunnel !SOCKS4 !SOCKS5 - PORTS ===== + This is a probably incomplete list of known hardware and operating systems that curl has been compiled for. If you know a system curl compiles and runs on, that isn't listed, please let us know! |