How to get trurl binaries

[Okeanos]

As originally discussed in #130 (comment) the curl/curl-for-win project stated to offer Windows builds of trurl.

However, it appears that the trurl.exe binaries are only available as pipeline artifacts of the daily build pipelines. Specifically, the binaries are deeply nested in the curl-windows-daily artifact which contains arch specific zip files, e.g. curl-8.11.0-DEV_20241020-win64-mingw-test.zip within which in the bin/ folder I can finally find the desired trurl.exe.

I am now wondering whether there's an option to make this process easier? Is there a way you can provide the trurl.exe in a way that is easier to consume and use? Are you already doing so somewhere and I missed it?

The official trurl page is rather bare, especially compared to the curl download page which offers everything even links to WinGet or Homebrew.

[vszakats]

In the linked comment I'm just offering ideas. We hadn't made the decision to provide trurl binaries within the official curl binaries. It seems unpractical and out-of-place.

The curl-for-win build scripts are capable to create a tailor-made static trurl binary, but it needs its own build configuration (different from what's ideal for curl itself). So it's best done within the trurl project.

This tailor-made curl-for-win build is already running in trurl's CI. What's missing is the process to do that for stable trurl releases and publish them somehow, somewhere.

In the meantime you may run it locally to produce trurl.exe, with CW_CONFIG='-main-zero-imap-osnotls-osnoidn-nohttp-nocurltool-win-x64'. It builds fast because there is no dependency besides a minimal libcurl.

[vszakats]

Moved this thread to the trurl repo.

[bagder]

I started a wiki page to collect information about how to get trurl for different OSes and distros:

https://github.com/curl/trurl/wiki/Get-trurl-for-your-OS