title: how to configure cURL lib in windows?
body: <p>I want to build libcurl on my windows system.</p>
  
  <p>Currently I am using eclipse cdt with mingw compiler. I have also installed cygwin 1.7* recently on my system. I want to build/install cURL 7.26.0. But  when I give </p>
  
  <pre><code>sh configure 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>command in curl root folder I get following error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ sh configure
  checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
  checking whether to enable debug build options... no
  checking whether to enable compiler optimizer... (assumed) yes
  checking whether to enable strict compiler warnings... no
  checking whether to enable compiler warnings as errors... no
  checking whether to enable curl debug memory tracking... no
  checking whether to enable hiding of library internal symbols... yes
  checking whether to enable c-ares for DNS lookups... no
  checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed
  checking for grep... /usr/bin/grep
  checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
  checking for ar... no
  configure: error: ar not found in PATH. Cannot continue without ar.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can anyone tell where I have gone wrong. Or If need to install anything else.</p>