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Re: curl error with IDL 8.5 [message #94316 is a reply to message #94311] Thu, 06 April 2017 18:20 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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On Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 3:42:46 AM UTC-6, Markus Schmassmann wrote:
> On 03/30/2017 09:00 PM, allison jaynes wrote:
>> After upgrading from 8.2 to 8.5, I'm now getting a strange error
>> when spawning a curl command. Have tried uninstalling and reinstalling curl,
>> and setting my path to point to where it should. I'm running OS 10.8
>> currently. Just curious: anyone else having this problem? I figured that
>> tons of people use curl in IDL, but perhaps not?
>>
>> [macd2591:~] alja2778% idl
>> IDL Version 8.5.1, Mac OS X (darwin x86_64 m64).
>> (c) 2015, Exelis Visual Information Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Harris Corporation.
>> Installation number: 100-550.
>> Licensed for use by: University of Colorado
>>
>> IDL> spawn, 'curl google.com'
>> dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libcurl.4.dylib
>> Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/curl
>> Reason: Incompatible library version: curl requires version 9.0.0 or later, but libcurl.4.dylib provides version 8.0.0
>> Trace/BPT trap
>>
>>
>> Same command works fine on my laptop running IDL 8.4. Any ideas?
>
> have you tried using curl outside IDL?
>
> [macd2591:~] alja2778% curl google.com
>
> Does that give you the same problem?
> If so, the problem has nothing to do with IDL.
>
> If you can't get it to work with CURL, and don't need the options curl
> provides, you might try WGET.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html
> https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html

Funny thing is that we just added WGET to IDL 8.5, but it uses IDLnetURL which of course requires curl.
-Chris
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