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Viktor Szakats
2026-06-25
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INSTALL.md: add building-from-source overview section
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| @@ -13,6 +13,24 @@ document does not describe how to install curl or libcurl using such a binary | |
| package. This document describes how to compile, build and install curl and | |
| libcurl from [source code](https://curl.se/download.html). | |
| + | ## Building from source |
| + | |
| + | You can use autotools or CMake to build curl from source. They work equally |
| + | well and have close to feature parity. |
| + | |
| + | autotools' advantages are wide portability and the Unix philosophy, while |
| + | CMake typically has faster configuration and build times, and supports MSVC. |
| + | |
| + | Option defaults and dependency detection details may differ. |
| + | |
| + | With both build tools, some features require Perl, and the pytest test suite |
| + | requires Python. |
| + | |
| + | You can find live examples for both tools and many build cases in curl's CI |
| + | scripts: `.github/workflows/*.yml`, `.circleci/*.yml` and `appveyor.*` (in the |
| + | Git repository only). For CMake-specific instructions, see |
| + | [INSTALL-CMAKE.md](https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-CMAKE.md). |
| + | |
| ## Building using vcpkg | |
| You can download and install curl and libcurl using | |