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://my.guardpuppy.com/libcurl-7.15.1-msvc-win32-ssl-0.9.8a-zlib-1.2.3.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-7.15.1
CURL_INC = -I$(CURL_DIR)/include
CURL_LIB = $(CURL_DIR)/libcurl_imp.lib

Open Tickets

#1587

Error compiling gdal-grass against gdal 1.4.1

#1983

GRASS support for windows

#2953

Patch for GDAL-GRASS plugin for GRASS 7