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Is there any good resource for the nitty-gritty details of building #Curl (mostly concerned with the library) for Windows, specifically with MSVC?

I muddled through getting things working from the little bit in the Readme.md in the winbuild folder, but I could really use more, especially since I'm having a hell of a time getting it to compile with native SSL support from within Visual Studio (weirdly, I can get it fine from a CLI session?).

Web searches seem to really love proffering everything.curl.dev/ to me, but it'd be barely more helpful even if it wasn't entirely based on out-of-date stuff that doesn't apply anymore :(

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in reply to keithzg

harsh so harsh. But you know, there are mailing lists and discussion forums to ask questions...
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@bagder Yeah fair, part of my problem though is honestly I'm muddling through poorly enough that I haven't always known what questions to entirely ask, or what problems even really relate to Curl specifically rather than, say, the crazy idiosyncrasies of Microsoft's various build systems! In fact so far other than silly mistakes I've made, it has all turned out to be specific weird Microsoft stuff, hah!

And at this point I feel confident I understand the Curl MSVC build specific enough that I could ask meaningful questions on the forums or lists if I run into any further problems. But, the sparseness of documentation did make it a bit hard for me to get to that point — not that Curl's build documentation wasn't far more readable and immediately useful on things than that of any of the Microsoft bits I tripped over, mind you ;)

in reply to keithzg

it's an old open source fact that everything that involves Windows is worse documented and has fewer contributors. In my case I never use Windows, so I can't write docs specific for it so I depend on others for that. But not a lot of people contribute there...