1 From file: CURL_RELEASE_NOTE_START.TXT 2 3 Note: These kits are produced by a hobbyist and are providing any support 4 or any commitment to supply bug fixes or future releases. This code is 5 as-is with no warrantees. 6 7 The testing of this build of curl was minimal and involved building some of 8 the sample and test programs, accessing a public HTTPS: website, doing a 9 form post of some VMS test files, and FTP upload of some text files. 10 11 Due to the way that PCSI identifies packages, if you install a package from 12 one producer and then want to upgrade it from another producer, you will 13 probably need to uninstall the previous package first. 14 15 OpenVMS specific building and kitting instructions are after the standard 16 curl readme file. 17 18 This product may be available for your platform in a PCSI kit. The source kit 19 contains files for building CURL using GNV or with a DCL procedure. 20 21 The GNV based build creates a libcurl share imaged which is supplied in the 22 PCSI kit. 23 24 This version of CURL will return VMS compatible status codes when run from 25 DCL and Unix compatible exit codes and messages when run with the SHELL 26 environment variable set. 27 28 This port of Curl uses the OpenSSL, Ldap, and Kerberos V5 that are bundled 29 with OpenVMS or supplied as updates by HP. Ldap and Kerberos are not available 30 on the VAX platform. See section below for a special note about HP OpenSSL 31 on Alpha and IA64. 32 33 The supplied CURL_STARTUP.COM procedure that is installed in 34 [VMS$COMMON.SYS$STARTUP] can be put in your VMS startup procedure to install 35 the GNV$LIBCURL shared image and create logical names GNV$LIBCURL to reference 36 it. It will create the GNV$CURL_INCLUDE logical name for build procedures 37 to access the header files. 38 39 Normally to use curl from DCL, just create a foreign command as: 40 curl :== $gnv$gnu:[usr.bin]gnv$curl.exe 41 42 If you need to work around having the older HP SSL kit installed, then 43 for DCL create this command procedure: 44 45 $ create/dir gnv$gnu:[vms_bin]/prot=w:re 46 $ create gnv$gnu:[vms_bin]curl.com 47 $ curl := $gnv$gnu:[usr.bin]gnv$curl.exe 48 $ define/user ssl$libcrypto_shr32 gnv$curl_ssl_libcryptoshr32 49 $ curl "''p1'" "''p2'" "''p3'" "''p4'" "''p5'" "''p6'" "''p7'" "''p8'" 50 ^Z 51 52 Then you can use: curl :== @gnv$gnu:[vms_bin]curl.com to run curl. 53 54 For the HP SSL work around to work for GNV do the following: 55 $ create/dir gnv$gnu:[usr.local.bin]/prot=w:re 56 $ create gnv$gnu:[usr.local.bin]curl. 57 #! /bin/sh 58 dcl @gnv\$gnu:[vms_bin]curl.com $* 59 ^Z 60 61 Similar work arounds will be needed for any program linked with GNV$LIBCURL 62 until the HP OpenSSL is upgraded to the current 1.4 version or later. 63 64 If you are installing a "daily" build instead of a release build of Curl, some 65 things have been changed so that it can be installed at the same time as 66 a production build with out conflicts. 67 68 The CURL_DAILY_STARTUP.COM will be supplied instead of CURL_STARTUP.COM. 69 This file is actually not used with the daily package and is provided as 70 a preview of what the next CURL_STARTUP.COM will be for the next release. 71 Do not run it. 72 73 The files that are normally installed in [VMS$COMMON.GNV.usr], for the 74 daily build are installed in [VMS$COMMON.GNV.beta] directory. 75 76 To use the daily GNV$LIBCURL image, you will need to define the logical 77 name GNV$LIBCURL to the image. 78
