= LibCurl = 

[http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/ Libcurl] is used to implement http access for the WMS, WCS and HTTP drivers.  

The new WMS driver (GDAL 1.5) requires at least libcurl 7.10.8 (released May 16 2005).

== Win32 Build ==

On win32, the http://curl.haxx.se/download/libcurl-7.16.4-win32-ssl.zip package should be suitable for use with GDAL, in which case the declaration in nmake.opt might look like:

{{{
# Uncomment to use libcurl (for WCS)
CURL_DIR=C:\BuildStuff\libcurl-7.16.4
CURL_INC = -I$(CURL_DIR)/include
CURL_LIB = $(CURL_DIR)/lib/libcurl.dll.a
}}}