[darcs-users] Mingw build +curl -libcurl-4.dll?

[Esa Ilari Vuokko]

Hi,

On 5/31/07, Kurt Granroth <darcs-users at granroth.org> wrote:
> I was successfully able to build the latest darcs on Windows using mingw/msys
> and it works well... except that I find that I have to haul along the
> libcurl-4.dll everywhere to get it to work.  That's not a *huge* burden, but
> I would still like to be able to have a 'darcs.exe' that is completely
> standalone.
>
> Has anybody done this?  If so, how?  I tried using --use-static-libs with
> configure, getting rid of the dlls and leaving only the libcurl.a in the ghc
> gcc-lib and /lib directories, and nothing seems to work.

I've managed to do it before.  Unfortunately, I can't say what was diffrent.
I think I compiled libcurl I used with darcs with dll-build disabled (ie static
lib only) to force it.

HTH,
Esa