Win-32 XP Pro SP3 A few hours ago I downloaded cURL, unpacked its zip, and moved the exe and necessary DLLs to the folder where I keep CLI programs. That is:
curl.exe 659 KB V7.25.0.0 libcurl.dll 529 KB V7.25.0.0 libeay32.dll 1516 KB no version number libssl32.dll 345 KB no version number Then I moved on to do the same for wget. But the dependencies zip comes with 4 DLLs: libeay32.dll 1150 KB V0.9.8.8 libiconv2.dll 985 KB V1.12.2872.39125 libintl3.dll 101 KB V0.14.4.1952 libssl32.dll 228 KB V0.9.8.8 Clearly I can't put the libeay32 & libssl32 DLLs supplied with wget into the same folder as the two that came with curl. And because Windows Explorer shows no version number info for the ones that came with curl, I don't know which ones are the more recent versions. Even if I did know that, I don't know whether it's good practice to keep each exe with the specific versions of DLLs it was shipped with (though I suspect that IS the best method) or whether one should just install the most recent version of each libxxxx.dll and hope. If the DLLs need kept separately then it follows that neither set should be in a folder on PATH, and I suppose that neither curl.exe nor wget.exe should be either. Is the solution to this problem to put each app in its own folder and alway specify the path to the exe when I want to use it? -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.