CURL not found in Windows

[qb64-phoenix-edition]

CURL not found in Windows

[RhoSigma-QB64]

1. Get curl here (https://curl.se/windows/), download according to your system, or simply the 32 bit version, if you're not sure.
2. Open the downloaded zip in explorer, navigate into the bin folder
3. Copy curl.exe and curl-ca-bundle.crt and paste it into C:\Windows
4. If you have no rights on C:\Windows, then simply paste it into your qb64 folder (where qb64.exe is in)

[jakebullet70]

OK, Put them in the QB64 folder and all is good.
Thinking we need to add to the install or download when needed?

[mkilgore]

The messy part is that some versions of Windows do include proper curl, while some other ones do not. Also, simply downloading curl.exe and curl-ca-bundle.crt is not really ideal because as Rho encountered the cert bundle can go out of date. We might consider adding curl.exe as part of the install temporarily but I think we should look to remove our usage of it in the future (Which was part of the idea behind #46).

[jakebullet70]

I think doing #46 is your long term answer. Short term... Maybe just picking up the return code from the SHELL too curl and putting a message on the screen. That would at least get the user pointed in the right direction for the fix.

[mkilgore]

Do you mean pop-up a more descriptive message than the one we currently do? Or did you not see a message at all?

[jakebullet70]

Here is the message.

Yeah, more descriptive. Thinking like point the user to the web and tell them to download curl. If I had seen a message like that would not of posted a bug.

[jakebullet70]

Also, if you do the 'Update all pages' it gets stuck in a loop, You keep getting the 'Cannot find curl' message over and over. Should drop out of the loop if it cannot find curl.

[mkilgore]

Thanks for the clarification, that seems reasonable to me 😄 And also good point about the 'Update all pages' getting stuck, that's not great. I think we can probably handle both issues with this card.