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I almost gave up installing cURL on my 64-bit Windows 8 system. I tried almost every single .zip, .exe, etc… on this site, but none of them worked. I got this message every single time:
The application was unable to start correctly (0xc00007b)
In my despair I tried a 32-bit installer and it worked like a charm. It’s running to full satisfaction now.
That leaves me to wonder; what did I do wrong with the 64-bit installers?
Sherlock
Posted 2015-03-25T20:19:27.147
Reputation: 121
1Are you 100% certain your running a 64-bit version of Windows? What exactly were you downloading, I see several different versions, that could confuse the less informed. – Ramhound – 2015-03-25T20:34:15.857
Yep, see the edit. – Sherlock – 2015-03-25T20:36:32.207
I tried the ones under Win64 - Generic and the ones under Win64 - cygwin. – Sherlock – 2015-03-25T20:37:44.720
I had no problems running the version from here which was linked to from the site you provided. The cygwin binary would only work within cygwin obviously. I just downloaded the .zip file since I didn't actually want to install it, there is no difference, there wasn't anything to "install" anyways
– Ramhound – 2015-03-25T20:38:15.793Ah, from there I went for the cURL Manager, but that's a pay link. The ones below actually work. Can I keep the 32-bit version or would it be better to uninstall and reinstall from this location? – Sherlock – 2015-03-25T20:40:59.793
1Exactly which downloads did you try? Some of the Win64 bit ones under "Win64 - Generic" are for IA64 processors (Itanium 64-bit) which is NOT the same as x86-64. So you should be aiming for the "Windows 2000/XP x86_64" download links... – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2015-03-25T20:41:36.527
Why are you downloading a secondary application to manager what basically is files contained in a zip file? Just download the .zip file and run curl don't make it complicated. – Ramhound – 2015-03-25T20:43:45.523
Those are the ones I didn't try because I thought those were not for me. Thanks. – Sherlock – 2015-03-25T20:44:18.770
@Ramhound: because I tried the IA64 ones which didn't install. So I figured I had to go for an application to do it for me. ;) – Sherlock – 2015-03-25T20:45:01.167
2You really only need the 64bit version if you are doing massive downloads. I doubt you will notice a difference otherwise since the transfers are generally bound by the network speed rather than memory. – Julian Knight – 2015-03-25T22:23:44.037
What @JulianKnight states is correct.
curlis not a resource hog and the most benefit you might see is shaving like—I don’t know—a few fractions of a second on a command which uses the 64-bit version versus the 32-bit version. – JakeGould – 2015-03-26T05:25:42.013wget and curl are included in PowerShell under Windows 8.1 as you can see here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33364752/equivalent-of-wget-command-line-for-windows-8-1/46742133#46742133
– SDsolar – 2017-10-14T07:47:36.813