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Reproducible, static, curl binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows
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Standalone curl, trurl tools and libcurl DLL. Static libraries
included.
Required: Windows Vista with
Universal CRT
(ARM64 or x64), macOS 10.12 Sierra (arm64 or x86_64),
Linux kernel 2.6.39+
(amd64, arm64, riscv64) with MUSL
builds.
HTTP/3,
HTTP/2 support,
and more.
Windows 64-bit builds are
Control Flow Guard
enabled. Intel builds have
CET
enabled. All builds have frame pointers enabled.
Transparent builds, using open source code, run in
public,
with auditable logs.
LLVM/Clang build environment with
mingw-w64 via
Debian,
Homebrew,
MSYS2.
llvm-mingw for ARM64.
Windows cross-built and published via
AppVeyor CI. Linux built via GHA.
Using reproducible container image
debian:testing-slim
via rootless podman. macOS built via GHA.
Linux and macOS builds are not official curl builds.
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We build reproducible binaries,
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confidence of getting merged.
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Packages built across host platforms do not have identical hashes due to
slightly different build options and toolchain builds/versions. Except
llvm-mingw builds used for ARM64, which are reproducible across platforms.
We code-sign with a self-signed certificate on Windows, and avoid trusted
timestamps for reproducibility.
Features
Uses LibreSSL TLS backend.
feature
Windows
Linux
macOS
noh3
mini
micro
nano
pico
alt-svc
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protocol
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macOS
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dict
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¹: platform-dependent
²: experimental
³: expected in upcoming release 8.22.0
noh3: HTTP/2
mini: without brotli and zstd, with OS TLS backend (Schannel) if available
micro: without libssh2
nano: HTTP/1.1
pico: HTTP/1.1-only
Downloads
Latest version for Windows:
https://curl.se/windows/
Specific versions for Windows, back to 8.10.0: https://curl.se/windows/dl-<curl-version>_<build-1-to-N>/curl-<curl-version>_<build-1-to-N>-{win64,win64a}-mingw.zip Example:
https://curl.se/windows/dl-8.10.0_1/curl-8.10.0_1-win64-mingw.zip
Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does
not represent or imply any future commitment by the participants of the
project.
The most recent commit recorded on curl/curl-for-win was 13 days ago, based on the GitHub push timestamp. The repository has 223 forks — one of the better signals of community interest.
How does curl/curl-for-win compare to other Security projects?
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Is curl/curl-for-win open source?
Yes — curl/curl-for-win ships under the MIT license, which makes its source code freely readable (and, depending on license terms, forkable and reusable). Source: github.com/curl/curl-for-win.
What is curl/curl-for-win?
curl/curl-for-win (curl/curl-for-win) is a Shell project on GitHub. From the project's own README: Reproducible, static, curl binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows
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