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Locating required external dependency bin:curl-config... missing.

In the Makefile.PL I see: 
# This is a hack. If you have libcurl installed, just specify curl.h b
+elow
# and comment out this line.
requires_external_bin    'curl-config';

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That would presumably be the source of the error - so try installing libcurl and then comment out that line of code, as suggested, and "specify curl.h below".

This module use Module::Install ... and it seems that the Makefile.PL tries to find libcurl for you ... and it looks like the Makefile.PL wants to generate the XS file - so expect all sorts of difficulties in trying to get the thing to build.

You'll need a compiler. Which one are you using ? (Visual Studio or MinGW ?)
It will probably be much easier if you install the module using ppm - assuming you can find a ppm for your version of perl. Which version are you using ?

Update: Read the WWW::Curl Readme file if you want to persevere with building it yourself.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^5: Install WWW::Curl
by jai_dgl (Beadle) on Jun 24, 2008 at 16:14 UTC
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      I downloaded http://www.gknw.net/mirror/curl/win32/curl-7.18.2-devel-mingw32.zip. (It's the "libcurl" link for Win32 at http://curl.haxx.se/download.html.)
      Then I unzipped to C:\curl and added C:\curl\curl-7.18.2-devel-mingw32\bin to my path.

      Next, downloaded the WWW::Curl-4.04 source from CPAN and extracted it to my usual build directory.
      First up, in the Makefile.PL, I commented out the line requires_external_bin    'curl-config'; and added C:/curl/curl-7.18.2-devel-mingw32/include to @includes (as you had also done). Then it was a matter of running: 
      perl Makefile.PL INC="-IC:/curl/curl-7.18.2-devel-mingw32/include" LIB
+S="-LC:/curl/curl-7.18.2-devel-mingw32/lib -lcurldll"

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      followed by dmake test and dmake install A couple of the tests failed - but hopefully that's good enough for your purposes. The full build output can be viewed below my sig.

      Update: The build I've done is a dynamic build. The libcurl binaries that I downloaded also included a static libcurl lib (libcurl.a), and it should be possible to build against that static lib instead of the dynamic lib. That should be achievable by replacing -lcurldll with -lcurl at the end of the above "Perl Makefile...." command. But I couldn't get that to work - I got about 30 errors relating to linking to libcurl of the type: 
      Curl.o:Curl.c:(.text+0x30ce): undefined reference to `_imp__curl_easy_
+init'

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      I think that's telling me that it's insisting on building against the dynamic lib. (I don't know why that is so - and I haven't gone looking for the answer.)

      Cheers,
      Rob
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        Hi, I'm Facing the following issue can anyone figure out this 
        Can't load 'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/WWW/Curl/Curl.dll' for module WWW::C
+url: load_file:The specified procedure could not be found at C:/Perl/
+lib/DynaLoader.pm line 201.
 at C:/Perl/site/lib/WWW/Curl.pm line 11

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        Thanks, Jey
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