How do I install cURL on cygwin?

Question

I tried to enable curl on cygwin but it says bash: curl: command not found

How do I install curl on cygwin?

Answer 1

I searched for curl on the cygwin packages part of their home page.

I found this link http://cygwin.com/packages/curl/. But that wasn't helpful because I couldn't download anything

So I searched for the curl-7.20.1-1 cygwin on Google. I found this helpful site mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/release/curl/

That site had a link to download curl-7.20.1-1.tar.bz2. I unzipped it using 7zip. It unzips it into ./user/bin/ or something so I had to find curl.exe in the local /usr/bin folder and put it into my /bin folder of c:\cygwin

Finally I could use cURL!

This drove me crazy. I hope it helps someone!

Answer 2

Installing libcurl-devel worked for me. Run cygwin setup. After you reach the Select package window search for curl, as shown in the screenshot. Select libcurl-devel and install the package.

Answer 3

If you don't see a certain package, you can access to a full list of ports (also unnoficials, the packages you see on the web) launching the setup.exe with -k argument with value http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg (example: C:\cygwin\setup\setup-x86.exe -K http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg).

Doing so, you can choose a lot of extra packages, also extra versions of cURL (compat one). I do that to get Apache, cUrl, php5, php5-curl and some others :)

I don't know if apt-cyg can get those extra packages.

Answer 4

For future reference:

Cygwin comes with many packages (among them curl, as you found) to install one of them you run the setup.exe program.

Answer 5

I just copied the folder "curl-7.43.0" from zip file that I downloaded from curl website curl.haxx.se into cygwin64 folder on drive C:. And then I have used it with prefix curl in cygwin command terminal.

My actual download location from softpedia, I have used Softpedia Mirror (US)

Answer 6

Nobody said how to install apt-cyg

in cygwin

lynx -source rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg > apt-cyg
install apt-cyg /bin

now you can

apt-cyg install curl

For more, see the official github repository of apt-cyg.