Hi everybody, I'm trying to do K/N hands on, using libcurl. However on Windows, libcurl is not a sys...

# kotlin-native

[Marko Mitic]

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.

[gildor]

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

[Marko Mitic]

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

[gildor]

you can do this, just compile it statically

[gildor]

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

[msink]

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

[Marko Mitic]

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

[msink]

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