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NAME top

       curl-config - Get information about a libcurl installation

SYNOPSIS top

       curl-config [options]

DESCRIPTION top

       curl-config displays information about the curl and libcurl
       installation.

OPTIONS top

       --ca   Displays the built-in path to the CA cert bundle this libcurl
              uses.

       --cc   Displays the compiler used to build libcurl.

       --cflags
              Set of compiler options (CFLAGS) to use when compiling files
              that use libcurl. Currently that is only the include path to
              the curl include files.

       --checkfor [version]
              Specify the oldest possible libcurl version string you want,
              and this script will return 0 if the current installation is
              new enough or it returns 1 and outputs a text saying that the
              current version is not new enough. (Added in 7.15.4)

       --configure
              Displays the arguments given to configure when building curl.

       --feature
              Lists what particular main features the installed libcurl was
              built with. At the time of writing, this list may include SSL,
              KRB4 or IPv6. Do not assume any particular order. The keywords
              will be separated by newlines. There may be none, one, or
              several keywords in the list.

       --help Displays the available options.

       --libs Shows the complete set of libs and other linker options you
              will need in order to link your application with libcurl.

       --prefix
              This is the prefix used when libcurl was installed. Libcurl is
              then installed in $prefix/lib and its header files are
              installed in $prefix/include and so on. The prefix is set with
              "configure --prefix".

       --protocols
              Lists what particular protocols the installed libcurl was
              built to support. At the time of writing, this list may
              include HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, FILE, TELNET, LDAP, DICT. Do
              not assume any particular order. The protocols will be listed
              using uppercase and are separated by newlines. There may be
              none, one, or several protocols in the list. (Added in 7.13.0)

       --ssl-backends
              Lists the SSL backends that were enabled when libcurl was
              built. It might be no, one or several names. If more than one
              name, they will appear comma-separated. (Added in 7.58.0)

       --static-libs
              Shows the complete set of libs and other linker options you
              will need in order to link your application with libcurl
              statically. (Added in 7.17.1)

       --version
              Outputs version information about the installed libcurl.

       --vernum
              Outputs version information about the installed libcurl, in
              numerical mode.  This outputs the version number, in
              hexadecimal, with 8 bits for each part: major, minor, and
              patch. So that libcurl 7.7.4 would appear as 070704 and
              libcurl 12.13.14 would appear as 0c0d0e... Note that the
              initial zero might be omitted. (This option was broken in the
              7.15.0 release.)

EXAMPLES top

       What linker options do I need when I link with libcurl?

         $ curl-config --libs

       What compiler options do I need when I compile using libcurl
       functions?

         $ curl-config --cflags

       How do I know if libcurl was built with SSL support?

         $ curl-config --feature | grep SSL

       What's the installed libcurl version?

         $ curl-config --version

       How do I build a single file with a one-line command?

         $ `curl-config --cc --cflags` -o example example.c `curl-config
       --libs`

SEE ALSO top

       curl(1)

COLOPHON top

       This page is part of the curl (Command line tool and library for
       transferring data with URLs) project.  Information about the project
       can be found at ⟨https://curl.haxx.se/⟩.  If you have a bug report
       for this manual page, see ⟨https://curl.haxx.se/docs/bugs.html⟩.
       This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/curl/curl.git⟩ on 2020-08-13.  (At that time, the
       date of the most recent commit that was found in the repository was
       2020-08-12.)  If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML
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Curl 7.17.1                      25 Oct 2007                  curl-config(1)