From file: CURL_RELEASE_NOTE_START.TXT Note: These kits are produced by a hobbyist and are providing any support or any commitment to supply bug fixes or future releases. This code is as-is with no warrantees. The testing of this build of curl was minimal and involved building some of the sample and test programs, accessing a public HTTPS: website, doing a form post of some VMS test files, and FTP upload of some text files. Due to the way that PCSI identifies packages, if you install a package from one producer and then want to upgrade it from another producer, you will probably need to uninstall the previous package first. OpenVMS specific building and kitting instructions are after the standard curl readme file. This product may be available for your platform in a PCSI kit. The source kit contains files for building CURL using GNV or with a DCL procedure. The GNV based build creates a libcurl share imaged which is supplied in the PCSI kit. This version of CURL will return VMS compatible status codes when run from DCL and Unix compatible exit codes and messages when run with the SHELL environment variable set. This port of Curl uses the OpenSSL, Ldap, and Kerberos V5 that are bundled with OpenVMS or supplied as updates by HP. Ldap and Kerberos are not available on the VAX platform. See section below for a special note about HP OpenSSL on Alpha and IA64. The supplied CURL_STARTUP.COM procedure that is installed in [VMS$COMMON.SYS$STARTUP] can be put in your VMS startup procedure to install the GNV$LIBCURL shared image and create logical names GNV$LIBCURL to reference it. It will create the GNV$CURL_INCLUDE logical name for build procedures to access the header files. Normally to use curl from DCL, just create a foreign command as: curl :== $gnv$gnu:[usr.bin]gnv$curl.exe If you need to work around having the older HP SSL kit installed, then for DCL create this command procedure: $ create/dir gnv$gnu:[vms_bin]/prot=w:re $ create gnv$gnu:[vms_bin]curl.com $ curl := $gnv$gnu:[usr.bin]gnv$curl.exe $ define/user ssl$libcrypto_shr32 gnv$curl_ssl_libcryptoshr32 $ curl "''p1'" "''p2'" "''p3'" "''p4'" "''p5'" "''p6'" "''p7'" "''p8'" ^Z Then you can use: curl :== @gnv$gnu:[vms_bin]curl.com to run curl. For the HP SSL work around to work for GNV do the following: $ create/dir gnv$gnu:[usr.local.bin]/prot=w:re $ create gnv$gnu:[usr.local.bin]curl. #! /bin/sh dcl @gnv\$gnu:[vms_bin]curl.com $* ^Z Similar work arounds will be needed for any program linked with GNV$LIBCURL until the HP OpenSSL is upgraded to the current 1.4 version or later. If you are installing a "daily" build instead of a release build of Curl, some things have been changed so that it can be installed at the same time as a production build with out conflicts. The CURL_DAILY_STARTUP.COM will be supplied instead of CURL_STARTUP.COM. This file is actually not used with the daily package and is provided as a preview of what the next CURL_STARTUP.COM will be for the next release. Do not run it. The files that are normally installed in [VMS$COMMON.GNV.usr], for the daily build are installed in [VMS$COMMON.GNV.beta] directory. To use the daily GNV$LIBCURL image, you will need to define the logical name GNV$LIBCURL to the image.