Sorry for not reading [Gretl-devel] using libcurl first. see http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-devel/2012-June/003979.html

Allin mentioned that

you'll need the appropriate "dev"

> package for libcurl

So, I tried to install libcurl3-dev on my ubuntu 10.04:

sudo aptitude install libcurl3-dev

Some needed dependences will be automatically taken care of. In fact, my ubuntu 10.04 installs "libcurl4-openssl-dev" package.

Now compiling gretl on my ubuntu is OK!

Yi-Nung Yang

2012/9/1 yinung at Gmail <yinung.cycu@gmail.com>

Dear all,

I would like to build gretl from cvs as I did before but I failed. The error message got after I do

   ./configure --enable-build-doc

were:
   Please install libcurl and then reconfigure gretl.
   libcurl is available from http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/

I noticed that the gretl changelog mentioned that " Switch to using libcurl for HTTP transaction support..."

I checked my ubuntu and found there were libcurl3 installed. I also went to "http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/" to download and install "curl_7.19.7-1ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb." I still got the same error messages....

   ...
   checking for FFTW... yes
   checking for CURL... no
   checking for GLIB... yes
   checking for GTK... yes

It seems that curl is not found. Is there required versions for curl? Or anything I am doing wrong?

Please help and thanks.

Yi-Nung Yang
Associate Professor
Department of International Business
CYCU, Taiwan.