On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 07:27:32PM +0530, Divyansh Garg wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to build the source code on my system (Ubuntu 20.04). > After cloning the repo, when I proceed with the command: make, I get > the following error. > I tried installing curl and searched the internet but couldn't get a fix. > Please advise, how can I solve this problem. > > divyansh:~/gsoc/git$ make > make: curl-config: Command not found > * new prefix flags > CC attr.o > CC config.o > CC exec-cmd.o > CC gettext.o > AR libgit.a > LINK git-daemon > LINK git-http-backend > LINK git-imap-send > LINK git-sh-i18n--envsubst > LINK git-shell > CC http.o > In file included from http.c:2: > http.h:6:10: fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory > 6 | #include <curl/curl.h> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ > compilation terminated. > make: *** [Makefile:2422: http.o] Error 1 As Torsten said you have to install not only a couple of libraries but also the related '-dev' package containing includes and static libraries. In our CI jobs using Ubuntu we install the following packages by default (see 'ci/install-dependencies.sh'): UBUNTU_COMMON_PKGS="make libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev tcl tk gettext zlib1g-dev perl-modules liberror-perl libauthen-sasl-perl libemail-valid-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl"
