You can build curl on Windows in several different ways. We recommend using the MSVC compiler from Microsoft or the free and open source mingw compiler. The build process is, however, not limited to these.
If you use mingw, you might want to use the autotools build system.
This is how to build curl and libcurl using the command line.
Build with MSVC using the nmake utility like this:
cd winbuild
Decide what options to enable/disable in your build. The README.md file in
that directory details them all, but an example command line could look like
this (split into several lines for readability):
nmake WITH_SSL=dll WITH_NGHTTP2=dll ENABLE_IPV6=yes \
WITH_ZLIB=dll MACHINE=x64
Using CMake, you can generate a set of Visual Studio project files:
cmake -B build -G 'Visual Studio 17 2022'
Once generated, you import them and build with Visual Studio like normally.
You can even generate them for 32-bit Windows with:
cmake -B build -G 'Visual Studio 17 2022' \
-DCMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM=x86
You can build curl with the mingw compiler suite. Use CMake to generate the set of Makefiles for you:
cmake -B build -G "MinGW Makefiles"