cURL (pronounced 'curl') is a computer software project providing a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (curl) for transferring data using various network protocols. The name stands for "Client URL", which was first released in 1997. cURL was first released in 1997.

Curl is a command-line tool for transferring data specified with URL syntax. libcurl is the library curl is using to do its job. It is readily available to be used by your software.

I am having trouble getting curl to run on Windows. I have downloaded a curl zip file from here, but it seems to contain source code, not an executable. Do I need to compile curl to run it?

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