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rhinoinrepose
rhinoinrepose

Reputation: 2151

Trying to use ffi and typhoeus gems on windows but I need libcurl

I'm pretty new to rails and I'm trying to get an application working. It's currently using ffi and typhoeus which need a version of libcurl. How can I install a version of libcurl for Windows 7.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1803

Answers (2)

Richard Peck
Richard Peck

Reputation: 76784

Answer that worked for me was:

  1. Download cURL from the following URL: https://curl.haxx.se/windows/ (I chose 64bit because that's the system I'm using)
  2. Go into the archive and browse to /bin
  3. Locate libcurl_x64.dll (it may be just libcurl.dll)
  4. Extract to your local drive
  5. Rename it to libcurl.dll if it has the _x64 suffix
  6. Cut + paste the file into the /bin directory of your Ruby installatio

It should work after this

Upvotes: 0

Core2Juan
Core2Juan

Reputation: 354

There's one option I implemented but couldn't install only libcurl packages. Cygwin provides lots of the packages and libraries used for development in Linux for being installed on Windows (included curl, libcurl, libcurl-dev, etc).

http://www.cygwin.com/

It worked for me in windows 7 64 bit OS.

Here's another solution for that specific gem

https://github.com/typhoeus/typhoeus/pull/151/files

Greetings.

Upvotes: 2

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