# [GSOC] fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory 3 messages from 2021-02-20 to 2021-02-20. Participants: Divyansh Garg, Torsten Bögershausen, SZEDER Gábor. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/55179 ## Divyansh Garg, 2021-02-20 13:57 Subject: [GSOC] fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAB%3DhuCZLwkBv-Fd4iUqbDwNuNfeFBfjPfKRzYUGShc727KJJzg%40mail.gmail.com ``` 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. divyansh:~/gsoc/git$ make make: curl-config: Command not found * new prefix flags CC attr.o CC config.o CC exec-cmd.o CC gettext.o AR libgit.a LINK git-daemon LINK git-http-backend LINK git-imap-send LINK git-sh-i18n--envsubst LINK git-shell CC http.o In file included from http.c:2: http.h:6:10: fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory 6 | #include | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make: *** [Makefile:2422: http.o] Error 1 Divyansh Garg ``` ## Torsten Bögershausen, 2021-02-20 14:11 Subject: Re: [GSOC] fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory Message-ID: <20210220141102.t43mb4gxwzseides@tb-raspi4> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20210220141102.t43mb4gxwzseides%40tb-raspi4 In-Reply-To: ``` On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 07:27:32PM +0530, Divyansh Garg wrote: > 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 || $APTGET gettext In other words, sudo apt-get install libcurl-devel could help. And you probably need to install more dev/devel packages, unfortunatly different Linux distros use different names for (from a user point of view) the same thing. So I can't tell you out of my head, what Ubuntu needs, but there is hopefully a start point. [snip] ``` ## SZEDER Gábor, 2021-02-20 19:07 Subject: Re: [GSOC] fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory Message-ID: <20210220190728.GA3590451@szeder.dev> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20210220190728.GA3590451%40szeder.dev In-Reply-To: ``` On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 07:27:32PM +0530, Divyansh Garg wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to build the source code on my system (Ubuntu 20.04). > After cloning the repo, when I proceed with the command: make, I get > the following error. > I tried installing curl and searched the internet but couldn't get a fix. > Please advise, how can I solve this problem. > > divyansh:~/gsoc/git$ make > make: curl-config: Command not found > * new prefix flags > CC attr.o > CC config.o > CC exec-cmd.o > CC gettext.o > AR libgit.a > LINK git-daemon > LINK git-http-backend > LINK git-imap-send > LINK git-sh-i18n--envsubst > LINK git-shell > CC http.o > In file included from http.c:2: > http.h:6:10: fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory > 6 | #include > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ > compilation terminated. > make: *** [Makefile:2422: http.o] Error 1 As Torsten said you have to install not only a couple of libraries but also the related '-dev' package containing includes and static libraries. In our CI jobs using Ubuntu we install the following packages by default (see 'ci/install-dependencies.sh'): UBUNTU_COMMON_PKGS="make libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev tcl tk gettext zlib1g-dev perl-modules liberror-perl libauthen-sasl-perl libemail-valid-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl" ```