Trying to compile weather program

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 05:27:16 UTC, Tony wrote:
> I happened to notice that among my libcurl*s
>
> libcurl-gnutls.so.3
> libcurl-gnutls.so.4
> libcurl-gnutls.so.4.3.0
> libcurl.so.3
> libcurl.so.4
> libcurl.so.4.3.0
>
> none were just libcurl.so. So I made a link for libcurl.so to 
> the latest version and now I am getting the same link errors I 
> got after downloading the -dev version. So apparently my "can't 
> find -lcurl" was because I didn't have a non-versioned 
> libcurl.so available as it went away when I created one

Yes, it's not particularly trivial to use libcurl currently, but 
thankfully all the libcurl complications will be gone in about 6 
weeks with 2.069.0.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3009

> (and there was probably one created by the -dev download).

Yes, the -dev packages come with unversioned symlinks and a 
pkg-config file (try `pkg-config --libs libcurl`).