My C project cannot find curl for some reason, even though i do have curl.

Hello!

1. How did you install CURL on the machine?
2. Please try to run CMake to configure the same project in the command line (outside CLion). Does it work?

Hello.

1. it is automatically installed on my device because it is a windows device, but i have tried to manually install it too, still does not work.

2. no, i will try and get back to you

it is automatically installed on my device because it is a windows device

Are you sure it comes with the curl library (libcurl)? I found curl.exe on my machine (in C:\Windows\System32), but I don't see libcurl.

The following worked on my side:

1. Download curl from https://curl.se/windows/  and unpack it on the machine.
2. Set the bundled MinGW toolchain as the default toolchain in CLion.

3. Add the following lines to the CMakeLists.txt.

   set(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "<path to>\\curl-8.17.0_4-win64-mingw")
   find_package(CURL REQUIRED)
   target_link_libraries(<target name> CURL::libcurl)

4. Do Tools | CMake | Reset Cache and Reload Project.