Merged. Thanks.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Tony Kelman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. When you cross-post the same question to both the mailing list and as > a new Github issue, it would help people keep track of things if you could > post links from one to the other - > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6687 > > As I wrote on the Github issue, this is due to the LibCURL.jl package ( > https://github.com/amitmurthy/LibCURL.jl, not forio/Curl.jl which is > deprecated in lieu of Requests.jl) not handling its binary dependencies > properly for Windows users. The Requests.jl package appears to have its > dependencies in better order (and it even has tests! yay for tests) and > could potentially be a replacement for LibCURL.jl and HTTPClient.jl, but > that would require rewriting some of the Plotly code's HTTP posts. I gave > that a quick try a few weeks ago when I was looking at trying to use > Plotly.jl myself, but gave up for the time being since simple replacement > wasn't working. > > I think I just worked out how to get LibCURL.jl to automatically download > the curl library for you on Windows, and opened a pull request here > https://github.com/amitmurthy/LibCURL.jl/pull/10. If you're in a hurry, > you should be able to try out my branch by doing > > Pkg.rm("LibCURL") > Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tkelman/LibCURL.jl";) > Pkg.checkout("LibCURL", "winrpm") > > Then restart Julia and see if using Plotly works any better. Remember to > eventually switch back to the official version of LibCURL, once Windows > support is working in the original repository. > > > On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 5:59:23 AM UTC-7, sam cooper wrote: >> >> When trying to run the Plotly.plot function in julia (running on windows >> 8 unfortunatley I can't change this having tried extensivley) I am >> encountering the error message: >> >> error compiling setup_easy_handle: could not load module libcurl >> >> This problem seems to be a recurrent problem in windows environments, >> googling it brings up several threads where this is a problem though none >> seem to have been properly resolved: >> >> https://github.com/forio/Curl.jl/issues/10 >> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04638.html >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/2XpGjLUC0ow >> >> >> I ran Pkg.update() as one thread suggested this had been resolved in a >> recent update, no luck. >> >> Has anyone found a resolution to this? If not is there any possibility of >> this problem being resolved in the near future or does anyone have any >> advice on how I might set about resolving this problem myself? >> >> Thank you very much in advance for any help. >> Sam >> >
