How to compile libcurl¶

• How to compile libcurl
  • 1. Android
    • 1.1 Configure
    • 1.2 Make
    • 1.3 The parameters of configure
  • 2. iOS
  • 3. Windows
  • 4. About the header files
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This document describes how to compile libcurl for Android, iOS and windows. The difficulty to compile libcurl is the parameters for configuration.

You can download the source code from:
http://curl.haxx.se/download.html

The document bases on version 7.21.4.

1. Android¶

1.1 Configure¶

Place the curl source into external/curl/ in the Android source tree. Create a shell script configure.sh, and put it into external/curl/. The script content is:

#!/bin/sh
SDK_ROOT=/home/nudtzxm/android_sdk
export PATH="$SDK_ROOT/prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.0/bin:$PATH" 
./configure --host=arm-linux CC=arm-eabi-gcc \
CPPFLAGS="-I $SDK_ROOT/system/core/include 
         -I $SDK_ROOT/hardware/libhardware/include 
         -I $SDK_ROOT/hardware/libhardware_legacy/include   
         -I $SDK_ROOT/hardware/ril/include   
         -I $SDK_ROOT/dalvik/libnativehelper/include  
         -I $SDK_ROOT/frameworks/base/include   
         -I $SDK_ROOT/frameworks/base/opengl/include   
         -I $SDK_ROOT/external/skia/include   
         -I $SDK_ROOT/out/target/product/generic/obj/include 
         -I $SDK_ROOT/bionic/libc/arch-arm/include   
         -I $SDK_ROOT/bionic/libc/include   
         -I $SDK_ROOT/bionic/libstdc++/include   
         -I $SDK_ROOT/bionic/libc/kernel/common  
         -I $SDK_ROOT/bionic/libc/kernel/arch-arm   
         -I $SDK_ROOT/bionic/libm/include   
         -I $SDK_ROOT/bionic/libm/include/arch/arm   
         -I $SDK_ROOT/bionic/libthread_db/include   
         -I $SDK_ROOT/bionic/libc/kernel/common   
         -I $SDK_ROOT/bionic/libc/kernel/arch-arm  
         -I $SDK_ROOT/system/core/libcutils   
         -I $SDK_ROOT/out/target/product/generic/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libcutils_intermediates  
         -I $SDK_ROOT/out/target/product/generic/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libwebcore_intermediates 
         -I $SDK_ROOT/system/core/include/arch/linux-arm/ 
         -include $SDK_ROOT/system/core/include/arch/linux-arm/AndroidConfig.h" \
CFLAGS="-nostdlib -fno-exceptions -fpic -ffunction-sections -funwind-tables -fstack-protector -fno-short-enums 
       -Wno-multichar -msoft-float -march=armv5te -mtune=xscale -D__ARM_ARCH_5__ -D__ARM_ARCH_5T__ -D__ARM_ARCH_5E__ -D__ARM_ARCH_5TE__ 
       -mthumb-interwork -DANDROID -fmessage-length=0 
       -W -Wall -Wno-unused -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Werror=return-type -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Werror=address 
       -Werror=sequence-point -DSK_RELEASE -DNDEBUG -g -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -finline-functions 
       -fno-inline-functions-called-once -fgcse-after-reload -frerun-cse-after-loop 
       -frename-registers -DNDEBUG -UDEBUG -mthumb -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -finline-limit=64" \
LIBS="-L$SDK_ROOT/out/target/product/generic/obj/lib 
     -L$SDK_ROOT/out/target/product/generic/obj/STATIC_LIBRARIES/libcutils_intermediates/libcutils.a -lc -lm -ldl
     $SDK_ROOT/prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.0/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-eabi/4.4.0/interwork/libgcc.a" 

Goto the root of curl, and run the script:

1.2 Make¶

Goto the root of curl and make curl:

1.3 The parameters of configure¶

You may see the parameters of configuration are complex. How to set it? You should read the comments of curl/Android.mk.

2. iOS¶

I compile it as the article says:
http://www.creativealgorithms.com/blog/content/building-libcurl-ios-42
or
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_673975590100qjuh.html (chinese)

I change the parameters of configure, so the configure command is:

./configure --disable-shared  --host=arm-apple-darwin10

3. Windows¶

Open the vc6curl.dsw and select "DLL Release" to build. You may find libcurl.dll and libcurl_imp.lib in the CURL_ROOT\lib\DLL-Release.

4. About the header files¶

The header files of curl/include can be only used after succesful configuration. And the header files are different on different platforms.