Re: [GSOC] fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Feb 20, 2021, 14:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20210220141102.t43mb4gxwzseides@tb-raspi4>
In-Reply-To: <CAB=huCZLwkBv-Fd4iUqbDwNuNfeFBfjPfKRzYUGShc727KJJzg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 07:27:32PM +0530, Divyansh Garg wrote:

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> Hello,
> I am trying to build the source code on my system (Ubuntu 20.04).
> After cloning the repo, when I proceed with the command: make, I get
> the following error.
> I tried installing curl and searched the internet but couldn't get a fix.
> Please advise, how can I solve this problem.

Welcome to the Git community. You need to install the development package of some packages, which come with header files (and not only the libs).

Being a lazy person, I collected all possible package names in a setupscript,
looking similar to this:
  APTGET="sudo apt-get install"
 type curl-config || $APTGET libcurl4-openssl-dev || $APTGET libcurl-devel
 test -r /usr/include/expat.h || $APTGET libexpat1-dev || $APTGET expat-devel || $APTGET libexpat-devel
 test -r /usr/include/ssl.h || test -r /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h || $APTGET openssl-devel || $APTGET  libssl-dev
 test -r /usr/include/zlib.h || $APTGET zlib1g-dev
 type msgfmt || $APTGET gettext

In other words, sudo apt-get install libcurl-devel could help. And you probably need to install more dev/devel packages, unfortunatly different Linux distros use different names for (from a user point of view) the same thing. So I can't tell you out of my head, what Ubuntu needs, but there is hopefully a start point.

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