How do I install and use cURL on Windows?

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Solution

Assuming you got it from https://curl.haxx.se/download.html, just unzip it wherever you want. No need to install. If you are going to use SSL, you need to download the OpenSSL DLLs, available from curl's website.

Problem

I am having trouble getting cURL to run on Windows. I have downloaded a cURL zip file from here, but it seems to contain source code, not an executable. Do I need to compile cURL to run it? If yes, then how do I do that? Where can I find `.exe` downloads for cURL ? I have looked for documentation on installing cURL, but there is little to be found.

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