I did the recursive pull, installed Python 2.7.x (latest) and got this when I ran the scripts:

  File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 358, in get_command_line
            Attempt to start a new process before the current process
            has finished its bootstrapping phase.

            This probably means that you are on Windows and you have
            forgotten to use the proper idiom in the main module:

                if __name__ == '__main__':
                    freeze_support()
                    ...

            The "freeze_support()" line can be omitted if the program
            is not going to be frozen to produce a Windows executable.
is not going to be frozen to produce a Windows executable.''')
RuntimeError:
            Attempt to start a new process before the current process
            has finished its bootstrapping phase.

            This probably means that you are on Windows and you have
            forgotten to use the proper idiom in the main module:

                if __name__ == '__main__':
                    freeze_support()
                    ...

            The "freeze_support()" line can be omitted if the program
            is not going to be frozen to produce a Windows executable.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 380, in main
    prepare(preparation_data)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 495, in prepare
    '__parents_main__', file, path_name, etc
  File "C:\Users\Robin\Documents\curl-for-windows\configure.py", line 115, in <module>
    run_gyp(gyp_args)
  File "C:\Users\Robin\Documents\curl-for-windows\configure.py", line 101, in run_gyp
    rc = gyp.main(args)
  File "C:\Users\Robin\Documents\curl-for-windows\build\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 525, in main
    return gyp_main(args)
  File "C:\Users\Robin\Documents\curl-for-windows\build\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 501, in gyp_main
    params, options.check, options.circular_check)
  File "C:\Users\Robin\Documents\curl-for-windows\build\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 129, in Load
Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
params['parallel'], params['root_targets'])
  File "C:\Users\Robin\Documents\curl-for-windows\build\gyp\pylib\gyp\input.py", line 2730, in Load
  File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 380, in main
    prepare(preparation_data)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 495, in prepare
    '__parents_main__', file, path_name, etc
  File "C:\Users\Robin\Documents\curl-for-windows\configure.py", line 115, in <module>
    check, generator_input_info)
      File "C:\Users\Robin\Documents\curl-for-windows\build\gyp\pylib\gyp\input.py", line 596, in LoadTargetBuildFilesParallel
run_gyp(gyp_args)
  File "C:\Users\Robin\Documents\curl-for-windows\configure.py", line 101, in run_gyp
    parallel_state.pool = multiprocessing.Pool(multiprocessing.cpu_count())
      File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\__init__.py", line 232, in Pool
rc = gyp.main(args)
      File "C:\Users\Robin\Documents\curl-for-windows\build\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 525, in main
return Pool(processes, initializer, initargs, maxtasksperchild)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\pool.py", line 159, in __init__
    self._repopulate_pool()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\pool.py", line 223, in _repopulate_pool
        return gyp_main(args)
w.start()
  File "C:\Users\Robin\Documents\curl-for-windows\build\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 501, in gyp_main
  File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\process.py", line 130, in start
        params, options.check, options.circular_check)
self._popen = Popen(self)
  File "C:\Users\Robin\Documents\curl-for-windows\build\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 129, in Load
  File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 258, in __init__
    params['parallel'], params['root_targets'])
      File "C:\Users\Robin\Documents\curl-for-windows\build\gyp\pylib\gyp\input.py", line 2730, in Load
cmd = get_command_line() + [rhandle]
  File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\forking.py", line 358, in get_command_line
    check, generator_input_info)
  File "C:\Users\Robin\Documents\curl-for-windows\build\gyp\pylib\gyp\input.py", line 596, in LoadTargetBuildFilesParallel
    is not going to be frozen to produce a Windows executable.''')
    RuntimeErrorparallel_state.pool = multiprocessing.Pool(multiprocessing.cpu_count())
:   File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\__init__.py", line 232, in Pool

                Attempt to start a new process before the current process
            has finished its bootstrapping phase.

            This probably means that you are on Windows and you have
            forgotten to use the proper idiom in the main module:

                if __name__ == '__main__':
                    freeze_support()
                    ...

            The "freeze_support()" line can be omitted if the program
            is not going to be frozen to produce a Windows executable.return Pool(processes, initializer, initargs, maxtasksperchild)

I'm not a python expert to know what to do here... FYI - VS2013 on Win8.1

When I attempt to configure on WinBlows 7, I can't get as far as creating the .h files, and so attempted to use the pre-built ones from SourceForge.

Alas, there were only .lib and .exe files in the packages there.

em.... can u update the libssh2 link?

Hi, big fan of your work, really useful :)

Minor comment on the readme, wondering if you could link to Visual Studio Community Edition as opposed to the express edition? No big deal of course, thanks for the project 👍

[This is the behaviour when I try to download and build from github on Windows 7.
I'll debug GYP next and add my comments here...]

Windows PowerShell

Copyright (C) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Identity added: C:\Users\davidc.ssh\id_rsa (C:\Users\davidc.ssh\id_rsa)

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub> ls

Directory: C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name

d---- 12/12/2013 3:37 PM source-sdk-2013

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub> git clone https://github.com/peters/curl-for-w

indows.git

Cloning into 'curl-for-windows'...

remote: Reusing existing pack: 2806, done.

emote: Total 2806 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

Receiving objects: 100% (2806/2806), 5.56 MiB | 4.56 MiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (766/766), done.

Checking connectivity... done

Checking out files: 100% (2423/2423), done.

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub> cd curl*

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub\curl-for-windows [master]> git submodule update

--init --recursive

Submodule 'build/gyp' (git://github.com/svn2github/gyp.git) registered for path

'build/gyp'

Submodule 'curl' (git://github.com/bagder/curl.git) registered for path 'curl'

Submodule 'libssh2' (git://git.libssh2.org/libssh2.git) registered for path 'lib

ssh2'

Submodule 'zlib' (https://github.com/madler/zlib) registered for path 'zlib'

Cloning into 'build/gyp'...

remote: Reusing existing pack: 14591, done.

remote: Total 14591 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

Receiving objects: 100% (14591/14591), 11.21 MiB | 2.62 MiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (7795/7795), done.

Checking connectivity... done

Submodule path 'build/gyp': checked out '0203b47450704863c671bcfcfe53405e1b9f6f0

2'

Cloning into 'curl'...

remote: Reusing existing pack: 97079, done.

remote: Counting objects: 93, done.

remote: Compressing objects: 89% (83/93) eceiving objects: 0% (1/97172)

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (93/93), done.

remote: Total 97172 (delta 45), reused 0 (delta 0)

Receiving objects: 100% (97172/97172), 23.35 MiB | 1.74 MiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (75339/75339), done.

Checking connectivity... done

Submodule path 'curl': checked out '2bf90d071016e279796e789f0ac223d635671a41'

Cloning into 'libssh2'...

remote: Counting objects: 8611, done.

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4156/4156), done.

remote: Total 8611 (delta 6362), reused 5893 (delta 4380)

Receiving objects: 100% (8611/8611), 1.71 MiB | 1024.00 KiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (6362/6362), done.

Checking connectivity... done

Submodule path 'libssh2': checked out 'f1cfa55b6064ba18fc0005713ed790da579361b5'

Cloning into 'zlib'...

remote: Reusing existing pack: 4194, done.

Windows PowerShell

Copyright (C) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Identity added: C:\Users\davidc.ssh\id_rsa (C:\Users\davidc.ssh\id_rsa)

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub> ls

Directory: C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name

d---- 12/12/2013 3:37 PM source-sdk-2013

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub> git clone https://github.com/peters/curl-for-w

indows.git

Cloning into 'curl-for-windows'...

remote: Reusing existing pack: 2806, done.

emote: Total 2806 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

Receiving objects: 100% (2806/2806), 5.56 MiB | 4.56 MiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (766/766), done.

Checking connectivity... done

Checking out files: 100% (2423/2423), done.

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub> git submodule update --init --recursive

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub> ls

Directory: C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name

d---- 2/11/2014 1:52 PM curl-for-windows

d---- 12/12/2013 3:37 PM source-sdk-2013

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub> cd curl*

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub\curl-for-windows [master]> git submodule update

--init --recursive

Submodule 'build/gyp' (git://github.com/svn2github/gyp.git) registered for path

'build/gyp'

Submodule 'curl' (git://github.com/bagder/curl.git) registered for path 'curl'

Submodule 'libssh2' (git://git.libssh2.org/libssh2.git) registered for path 'lib

ssh2'

Submodule 'zlib' (https://github.com/madler/zlib) registered for path 'zlib'

Cloning into 'build/gyp'...

remote: Reusing existing pack: 14591, done.

remote: Total 14591 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

Receiving objects: 100% (14591/14591), 11.21 MiB | 2.62 MiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (7795/7795), done.

Checking connectivity... done

Submodule path 'build/gyp': checked out '0203b47450704863c671bcfcfe53405e1b9f6f0

2'

Cloning into 'curl'...

remote: Reusing existing pack: 97079, done.

remote: Counting objects: 93, done.

remote: Compressing objects: 89% (83/93) eceiving objects: 0% (1/97172)

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (93/93), done.

remote: Total 97172 (delta 45), reused 0 (delta 0)

Receiving objects: 100% (97172/97172), 23.35 MiB | 1.74 MiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (75339/75339), done.

Checking connectivity... done

Submodule path 'curl': checked out '2bf90d071016e279796e789f0ac223d635671a41'

Cloning into 'libssh2'...

remote: Counting objects: 8611, done.

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4156/4156), done.

remote: Total 8611 (delta 6362), reused 5893 (delta 4380)

Receiving objects: 100% (8611/8611), 1.71 MiB | 1024.00 KiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (6362/6362), done.

Checking connectivity... done

Submodule path 'libssh2': checked out 'f1cfa55b6064ba18fc0005713ed790da579361b5'

Cloning into 'zlib'...

remote: Reusing existing pack: 4194, done.

remote: Total 4194 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

Receiving objects: 100% (4194/4194), 3.49 MiB | 2.01 MiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (2453/2453), done.

Checking connectivity... done

Submodule path 'zlib': checked out '50893291621658f355bc5b4d450a8d06a563053d'

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub\curl-for-windows [master]> git submodule update

--init --recursive

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub\curl-for-windows [master]> C:\Python33\python.e

xe .\configure.py

File ".\configure.py", line 103

print 'Error running GYP'

                        ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub\curl-for-windows [master]>

remote: Total 4194 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

Receiving objects: 100% (4194/4194), 3.49 MiB | 2.01 MiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (2453/2453), done.

Checking connectivity... done

Submodule path 'zlib': checked out '50893291621658f355bc5b4d450a8d06a563053d'

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub\curl-for-windows [master]> git submodule update

--init --recursive

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub\curl-for-windows [master]> C:\Python33\python.e

xe .\configure.py

File ".\configure.py", line 103

print 'Error running GYP'

                        ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

C:\Users\davidc\Documents\GitHub\curl-for-windows [master]>

Node,js has a gyp verion here https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/deps/cares

It's really simple, I've just added the cares folder to the repository, added the dependency on curl.gyp and it worked.

Cloning into 'libssh2'...
fatal: read error: Invalid argument

Changing from
git://git.libssh2.org/libssh2.git
to
http://git.libssh2.org/libssh2.git

Fixed it.

Judging from the performance of RSA encryption/decryption using the version of OpenSLL that this system builds, it seems that asm code is not being used. Inspection of the preprocessor symbols in the VS project reveals a "NO_ASM" macro.

Is it possible to configure/build openssl with the assembler code paths enabled?

I have access to a pre-built openssl binary, which the provider says was built with NASM, and it's significantly faster. But, I'd prefer the nicely integrated curl/openssl/zlib/ssh2 solution your sytem provides...