A way to build Curb on Windows(MinGW)

[quantum5]

This is not a issue but a tutorial:

1. Build cURL with all the features you need or download a binary.
2. Execute gem i curb -- --with-curl-lib=/bin --with-curl-include=/include

Note that you use bin instead of lib because the symbol in lib is different and the build system won't handle it. MinGW supports link directly with a shared lib.

[7dir]

https://curl.haxx.se/download.html

gem install curb --platform=ruby -- --with-curl-dir=c:\tools\curl-7.60.0-win64-mingw

[luke-hill]

A few tweaks have been added by myself to the README recently to get windows users building easier.

Key takeaways

• Ruby 2.3.3 is the last version which works "nicely", any 2.4 version is likely to struggle.
• Make sure to have forward slashes and run everything from C: directory install.
• Check your PATH variables.

If anyone reading has got this gem working on a Ruby 2.4 on Windows please share what you did so we can get it in the README.