

If, on the curl homepage, you click the large and prominent "Download" section in the site header, and then the large and prominent curl-7.62.0.tar.gz link in its body, you will have downloaded a curl source package, which contains curl's source code but not curl.exe.

It is too easy to accidentally download the wrong thing. Installing curl manually Downloading curl EDIT by a reader: Cygwin installer design has changed, please choose curl packages as follows:


Libcurl3 - easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (OpenSSL flavour) You are probably looking for one of these: To find out all the packages with "curl" in the package name. Packages ending with a "-dev" are the ones you usually need when you want to have something compiled, they will install the includes and other files needed for that. You should search for "curl" on the package system, and you will find the curl-related libraries, which might be what you want. The names of the packages for programs and libraries in Debian (and Raspbian) are standardized, and sometimes differ from the names the libraries give themselves or the tag or symbol names for them.
