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Hi @alexcrichton, and many thks for your work 😀.
I am having the same need as @ian-p-cooke had 4 years ago 👉 #221.
I decided to use mingw64
to build curl-4.dll
on Windows instead of vcpkg
. It works as expected following these steps:
- installing msys2
- installing base-devel and mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
- building curl 7.87 schannel from source for mingw64
Then I build my rust app with crate-sys
dependency with these prerequisites:
- adding mingw64/bin dir to path
- rust toolchain stable-gnu
I expected curl-sys
to link my mingw64/curl-4.dll
, but it does not permit the use of mingw64's pkg_config
. Instead, the crate uses embedded curl 7.86-DEV
as mentioned in documentation.
So, to achieve my goal, I had to update curl-sys/build.rs
line 38
like this:
if windows {
if try_vcpkg() {
return;
} else if try_pkg_config() {
return;
}
} else if try_pkg_config() {
return;
}
}
With this update, curl-sys
correctly links my rust app with my fresh mingw64/curl-4.dll
.
Now that compiling curl with mingw64 is working easily, I think that we could allow curl-sys
to use pkg_config
instead of vcpkg
according to the dev's choice.