From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:43:29 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Document a libcurl requirement.
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Document a libcurl requirement.

Reported by Michele Locati <michele@locati.it> in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2026-01/msg00029.html>.

* DEPENDENCIES: Mention special requirements of libcurl on Windows.
---

diff --git a/DEPENDENCIES b/DEPENDENCIES
index ce1c82fc9..210f11ed3 100644
--- a/DEPENDENCIES
+++ b/DEPENDENCIES
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ The following packages should be installed before GNU gettext is installed
     - On Debian and Debian-based systems: libcurl4-gnutls-dev or libcurl4-openssl-dev,
     - On Red Hat distributions: libcurl-devel.
     - Other: https://repology.org/project/curl/versions
+  + When building against a static libcurl on Windows, you need to include
+    "-DCURL_STATICLIB" in the CPPFLAGS.
 
 * libacl
   + Recommended on Linux systems.