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+Author: Jörn Hartroth
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+DESCRIPTION
+
+Packaging of the curl binaries for Win32 should at this point in time be based
+on the InfoZip (zip/unzip) archiver family as the de-facto standard for
+Windows archives. A package should contain the main binary curl.exe along with
+the appropriate documentation and license information files. For development
+releases, you should also include the header directory and probably the
+compiled binaries of libcurl and the appropriate Makefiles/project definition
+files for the compiler used.
+
+A simple packaging mechanism can be based on a set of batch files which call
+zip.exe with the appropriate files from the curl distribution - see the
+samples included below (Long lines have been split with "\" as the split
+marker, you'll want to rejoin the pieces to be all on one line in the batch
+file). Call any of these batch files - after compiling the curl binaries -
+with a single parameter specifying the name of the archive file to be created.
+
+It is implicitely assumed that all of the binary files (curl.exe, libcurl.a,
+etc) have previously been copied to the main directory of the curl source
+package (the directory where the main README resides), because that is where
+they should end up in the zip archive. The archive should *not* be built with
+absolute path information because the user will want to locally extract the
+archive contents and shift the binaries to his executable directory.
+
+SCRIPT_TEMPLATES
+
+curlpkg.bat:
+	zip -9 %1 curl.exe CHANGES LEGAL MPL-1.0.txt README \
+	 docs/FAQ docs/FEATURES docs/README.curl docs/README.win32 docs/TODO
+
+curldevpkg.bat:
+	zip -9 %1 curl.exe include\README include\curl\*.h CHANGES docs\* \
+	  curl.spec curl-ssl.spec LEGAL lib/Makefile.m32 src/Makefile.m32 \
+	  libcurl.a libcurl.def libcurl.dll libcurldll.a MPL-1.0.txt README
+
+PROCEDURE_EXAMPLE
+
+A standard packaging routine (for MingW32) using the above batch files could
+go like this:
+(No SSL)					(With SSL)
+cd <curl-sourcedir>\lib			cd <curl-sourcedir>\lib
+make -f Makefile.m32			make -f Makefile.m32 SSL=1
+cd ..\src					cd ..\src
+make -f Makefile.m32			make -f Makefile.m32 SSL=1
+cd ..						cd ..
+copy lib\libcurl.a .			copy lib\libcurl.a .
+copy src\curl.exe .			copy src\curl.exe .
+curlpkg curl-win32-nossl.zip		curlpkg curl-win32-ssl.zip