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Hi everybody, I'm trying to do K/N hands on, using libcurl. However on Windows, libcurl is not a system lib. I've downloaded binaries but I'm not sure where to drop them inside the project and whether additional buildscript changes are needed to reference it.

See readme of official K/N sample
<https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/tree/master/samples/libcurl>

I was hoping to include lib with app, using `staticLibrary` and `libraryPaths` options. I'm still trying to figure those out

you can do this, just compile it statically

but to build your app you need libcurl dev installed on your computer, this is how native development mostly work with dependencies

On Windows you have to install MSYS2 and then `mingw-w64-x86_64-curl`
I'm not sure that static linking is not broken - when I tried it (year ago) it did not work.
But there was some fixes, maybe now it works:
<https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/3538>

I think i managed to link libcurl but now I get missing references to ton of other libs :smile:

Of course, you will need something like `-static -lcurl
-lbrotlidec-static -lnghttp2 -lssh2 -lssl -lwldap32 -Wl,--start-group
-lbcrypt -lbrotlicommon-static -lcrypt32 -lcrypto -lws2_32 -lz`
<https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/3538#issuecomment-471379381>