[pdal] LNK2019 for PDAL with Arbiter and static cURL

[Andrew Bell]

I don't think anyone has cared about linking curl as a static lib.  We also
haven't supported VS 2017 unless you're building it yourself.  I think
you're on your own on this one.

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 8:11 AM Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Today I enountered a problem while building PDAL with
> cURL enabled using VS2017 on Windows.
>
> Everything compiled, but I got a bunch of linker errors
> LNK2019 unresolved external symbol
> for cURL's calls being unresolved and referenced by arbiter.
>
> BTW, static built libcurl.lib I passed to CMake was passed to linker.
>
> The workaround that worked for me was to edit vendor/arbiter/arbiter.hpp
> and add #define CURL_STATICLIB in here:
>
> #ifdef ARBITER_CURL
> #define CURL_STATICLIB
> #include <curl/curl.h>
> #else
> typedef void CURL;
> #endif
>
> Has anyone experienced that?
>
> There seem to be no CMake option or define expected by
> either PDAL or Arbiter to tell those to use static cURL
> and stick the CURL_STATICLIB define before curl.h include.
>
> There seem to be nothing related to use of static cURL
> in the docs or AppVeyor scripts.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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