Building libcurl and openssl on windows statically

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Building static libcurl and openssl on Windows

These instructions were tested on Windows 7 Professional w/ Visual Studio 2010

Building openssl

1. Download the latest openssl from the website; at the time of this writing, it is 1.0.0d

2. Extract it to your drive; I put it in c:\code\openssl-1.0.0d

3. install ActiveState perl unless you already have a non-cygwin perl installed on windows

4. Open a Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt

5. from the openssl dir, run:

    perl Configure VC-WIN32 no-shared
   

6. Also from the openssl dir, run:

    ms\do_ms.bat
   

7. Also from the openssl dir, run:

    nmake -f ms\nt.mak
   

Building libcurl

1. Download the latest libcurl from the website; at the time of this writing, it is 7.21.7

2. Edit lib\Makefile.vc10 and add the following to CFLAGS:

   /DCURL_DISABLE_LDAP /DCURL_DISABLE_TELNET /DCURL_DISABLE_DICT /DCURL_DISABLE_TFTP
   

3. Run the following:

    set RTLIBCFG=static
    set openssl_path=C:\code\openssl-1.0.0d
    nmake VC=vc10 vc-ssl
   

instead of step 2 editing the makefile you can use:

nmake VC=vc10 vc-ssl

very good to know! thanks!