Fail to build on Windows: The system cannot find the file specified about curl-rust

[Zebedee68]

Same problem with me on Win10 32bit, see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32487166/cargo-build-error-file-missing

Anyone?

[phil-n]

I have the same problem with windows 10 64bit, moving the project to C:\ as suggested in the SO thread didn't help in my case.

[FlorianScheyer]

I got the same error, windows 8.1 64bit, still looking for a fix also tried moving the project to C:\ but it didn't work.

[Seeker14491]

I'm getting this error while trying to install cargo-edit. I'm on Windows 7 64-bit.

   Compiling curl-sys v0.1.26
failed to run custom build command for `curl-sys v0.1.26`
Process didn't exit successfully: `C:\Users\Seeker\Desktop\cargo-edit\target\rel
ease\build\curl-sys-f4d12d0ac911a4c8\build-script-build` (exit code: 101)
--- stdout
Couldn't find libcurl from pkgconfig ("failed to run `\"pkg-config\" \"--libs\"
\"--cflags\" \"libcurl\"`: The system cannot find the file specified. (os error
2)"), compiling it from source...
cargo:rustc-link-search=C:\Users\Seeker\Desktop\cargo-edit\target\release\build\
curl-sys-f4d12d0ac911a4c8\out/lib
cargo:rustc-link-lib=static=curl
cargo:root=C:\Users\Seeker\Desktop\cargo-edit\target\release\build\curl-sys-f4d1
2d0ac911a4c8\out
cargo:include=C:\Users\Seeker\Desktop\cargo-edit\target\release\build\curl-sys-f
4d12d0ac911a4c8\out/include
cargo:rustc-flags=-l ws2_32
OPT_LEVEL = Some("3")
PROFILE = Some("release")
TARGET = Some("x86_64-pc-windows-gnu")
debug=false opt-level=3
HOST = Some("x86_64-pc-windows-gnu")
TARGET = Some("x86_64-pc-windows-gnu")
TARGET = Some("x86_64-pc-windows-gnu")
HOST = Some("x86_64-pc-windows-gnu")
CC_x86_64-pc-windows-gnu = None
CC_x86_64_pc_windows_gnu = None
HOST_CC = None
CC = None
TARGET = Some("x86_64-pc-windows-gnu")
HOST = Some("x86_64-pc-windows-gnu")
CFLAGS_x86_64-pc-windows-gnu = None
CFLAGS_x86_64_pc_windows_gnu = None
HOST_CFLAGS = None
CFLAGS = None
running: "sh" "/c/Users/Seeker/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-0a35038f75765ae4/c
url-sys-0.1.26/curl/configure" "--with-winssl" "--enable-static=yes" "--enable-s
hared=no" "--enable-optimize" "--prefix=C:\\Users\\Seeker\\Desktop\\cargo-edit\\
target\\release\\build\\curl-sys-f4d12d0ac911a4c8\\out" "--without-librtmp" "--w
ithout-libidn" "--without-libssh2" "--without-nghttp2" "--disable-ldap" "--disab
le-ldaps" "--disable-ftp" "--disable-rtsp" "--disable-dict" "--disable-telnet" "
--disable-tftp" "--disable-pop3" "--disable-imap" "--disable-smtp" "--disable-go
pher" "--disable-manual"

--- stderr
thread '<main>' panicked at 'cmd.status() return the error The system cannot fin
d the file specified. (os error 2)', C:\Users\Seeker\.cargo\registry\src\github.
com-0a35038f75765ae4\curl-sys-0.1.26\build.rs:130

[alexcrichton]

This indicates that "sh" isn't an executable in PATH, which probably means that you're not running inside an MSYS2 shell. Some possible fixes are:

• Compiles can happen from an MSYS2 shell instead of another.
• "sh" can be added to PATH manually
• The MSVC-targeting compilers could be used instead of the MinGW ones

In general though there could be some better error messages here.