std.net.curl not working in 2.058 for Windows

[Brad Anderson]

On Friday, 24 February 2012 at 07:59:50 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> There is no documentation (both on dlang.org and in the local 
> documentation) so I'm not sure if it's supposed to be working 
> yet.  I get linker errors when I try to use it:
>
>     $ dmd netcurl.d
>     OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.12
>     Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010  All rights reserved.
>     http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
>     netcurl.obj(netcurl)
>      Error 42: Symbol Undefined 
> _D3std3net4curl3FTP8__cpctorMxFKxS3std3net4curl3FTPZv
>     netcurl.obj(netcurl)
>      Error 42: Symbol Undefined 
> _D3std3net4curl3FTP11__fieldDtorMFZv
>     netcurl.obj(netcurl)
>      Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D3std3net4curl3FTP7performMFZv
>     netcurl.obj(netcurl)
>      Error 42: Symbol Undefined 
> _D3std3net4curl13CurlException7__ClassZ
>     netcurl.obj(netcurl)
>      Error 42: Symbol Undefined 
> _D3std3net4curl13CurlException6__ctorMFAyaAyakC6object9ThrowableZC3std3net4curl13CurlException
>     netcurl.obj(netcurl)
>
>     [snip]
>
> Furthermore the documentation in the actual source says this 
> should work:
>
>     string content = get("http://dlang.org");
>
> But that results in a compiler error error:
>
>     netcurl.d(5): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression 
> (get("http://dlang.org",AutoProtocol())) of type char[] to 
> string
>
> get() signature from the source is:
>
>     T[] get(Conn = AutoProtocol, T = char)(const(char)[] url, 
> Conn conn = Conn())
>         if ( isCurlConn!Conn && (is(T == char) || is(T == 
> ubyte)) )
>
> An .idup fixes it, of course, but the documentation is wrong 
> (or the signature is wrong).
>
> Finally, was the curl library included?  If not, where can it 
> be found?  It needs to be an OMF version, right?  I don't see 
> an OMF version on curl's website.
>
> Regards,
> Brad Anderson


It would appear phobos's win32.mak wasn't updated to include the 
curl wrapper.

I can try to figure out how the makefile works and send a pull 
request if nobody who knows what's going on has time.

Regards,
Brad Anderson