Curl on Win32

Raineer has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks,

Quick question about the curl/win32 implementation. I have a script which I wrote on Unix which is working perfectly, but migrating that to Win32 has been quite a pain. I am not sure if I am fighting an implementation issue or my own install issue.

I can get the files to download fine under Win32, but I never am able to see the same progress bar (or progress info) from Curl like I am used to on *nix. All I see is the actual text feedback from the FTP site; the download proceeds correctly but I wish to not see that output and would rather see Curl's familiar download status.

Is this a Win32 specific limitation of the library or did I likely mess up somewhere? Been fighting this one on and off all day. I do believe I've read through all the proper FAQ's. The C API is very in-depth but almost seems not to apply here (yet), as toggling options do not effect this issue.

Thank you kindly...

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Re: Curl on Win32 by Anonymous Monk on Apr 14, 2009 at 07:26 UTC
Are you talking about a command line program curl (on windows curl.exe)?	[reply]
Re^2: Curl on Win32 by Raineer (Novice) on Apr 14, 2009 at 17:56 UTC
Thank you for your reply... More specifically I am referring to using libcurl via WWW::Curl::Easy in a perl script. It behaves differently between win32 and linux, on the former it is impossible for me to figure out how to see the curl progress bar (all I see is the text from the FTP server). On the latter I have no issues, I can use either the graphical progress bar or the standard perl status bar by setting the options.	[reply]