Thanks. I deleted my packages, just to make sure, and I added the Requests package again. This time, it went further. It seemed to build ICU fine, and lay down a bunch of dll's and then after a while, it balked on GnuTls:
Size: 422910 Compressed: 423204 INFO: Downloading: libnettle INFO: 7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 Processing archive: C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3\WinRPM\cache\http%3a%2f%2fdownload.opensuse.org%2frepositories%2fwindows%3a%2fmingw%3a%2fwin64%2fopenSUSE_Factory%2f%0d%0a\noarch%2fmingw64-libnettle-2.7-3.30.noarch.rpm Extracting noarch%2fmingw64-libnettle-2.7-3.30.noarch.cpio Everything is Ok Size: 182140 Compressed: 77184 7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 Processing archive: C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3\WinRPM\cache\http%3a%2f%2fdownload.opensuse.org%2frepositories%2fwindows%3a%2fmingw%3a%2fwin64%2fopenSUSE_Factory%2f%0d%0a\noarch%2fmingw64-libnettle-2.7-3.30.noarch.cpio ERROR: Can not delete output file C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3\WinRPM\deps\usr\x86_64-w64-mingw32\sys-root\mingw\bin\libnettle-4-6.dll Sub items Errors: 1 Extracting: libnettle ===============================[ ERROR: GnuTLS ]================================ e = 2.7182818284590... while loading C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3\GnuTLS\deps\build.jl, in expression starting on line 55 ================================================================================ INFO: LibraryDependency(Building HttpParser libhttp_parser) INFO: Attempting to Create directory C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3\HttpParser\deps\downloads INFO: Downloading file https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19359560/libhttp_parser.zip % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:--:-- 0 100 77835 100 77835 0 0 29173 0 0:00:02 0:00:02 --:--:-- 29173 7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 Processing archive: C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3\HttpParser\deps\downloads\libhttp_parser.zip Extracting usr\lib Extracting usr\lib\libhttp_parser32.dll Extracting usr\lib\libhttp_parser64.dll Everything is Ok Folders: 1 Files: 2 Size: 222605 Compressed: 77835 INFO: Done downloading file https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19359560/libhttp_parser.zip INFO: Attempting to Create directory C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3\HttpParser INFO: Directory C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3\HttpParser already created INFO: Attempting to Create directory C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3\HttpParser\deps\usr ================================[ BUILD ERRORS ]================================ WARNING: GnuTLS had build errors. - packages with build errors remain installed in C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\v0.3 - build a package and all its dependencies with `Pkg.build(pkg)` - build a single package by running its `deps/build.jl` script ================================================================================ INFO: Package database updated Then I tried simply the following: In [5]: using HTTPClient.HTTPC In [6]: request = HTTPC.get("http://www.microsoft.com";) And now I get this error with libcurl: Out [6]: ERROR: error compiling get: error compiling setup_easy_handle: could not load module libcurl: %1 is not a valid Win32 application. I tried to copy some code from https://github.com/jiahao/UCIMLRepo.jl/blob/master/src/UCIMLRepo.jl again, problems with libcurl. Any hints as to how to build a ridiculously simple web client on Windows 7 is welcome. > >>
