curl "not recognized as internal or external command"

[Graeme Byers]

I have been following "Maven : The Definitive Guide" by Sonatype page 75 and so downloaded curl-7.24.0 for the example.
I noticed that there has been one previous question on curl in this forum and expect that others have run the example successfully.
What should I put in my WinXP-Pro path so that I don't get the error above ?

Thank you for any help.

[Peter Johnson]

You can download a Windows version of curl from http://curl.haxx.se/download.html. Grab one of the binary zip files, download it, and unpack it to anywhere in your PATH.

[Graeme Byers]

Hi Peter, Thank you for your reply but I did what you suggest before posting.

Here is a listing of %path%

C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_29\bin;C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server\bin;
C:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.0.3\bin;
C:\Program Files\apache-ant-1.8.2/bin;
C:\Program Files\curl-7.24.0 

Here is a directory listing of C:\Program Files\curl-7.24.0

 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 64A3-760B

 Directory of C:\Program Files\curl-7.24.0

04/02/2012  15:08    <DIR>          .
04/02/2012  15:08    <DIR>          ..
03/02/2012  10:26            90,031 acinclude.m4
03/02/2012  10:26            33,020 aclocal.m4
03/02/2012  10:26             4,251 Android.mk
03/02/2012  10:26            14,852 buildconf
03/02/2012  10:26           167,417 CHANGES
03/02/2012  10:26    <DIR>          CMake
03/02/2012  10:26            34,103 CMakeLists.txt
03/02/2012  10:26             3,707 compile
03/02/2012  10:26            44,504 config.guess
03/02/2012  10:26            35,206 config.sub
03/02/2012  10:26         1,065,128 configure
03/02/2012  10:26            96,761 configure.ac
03/02/2012  10:26             1,044 COPYING
03/02/2012  10:26             4,118 curl-config.in
03/02/2012  10:26             1,792 curl-style.el
03/02/2012  10:26            15,936 depcomp
03/02/2012  10:26    <DIR>          docs
03/02/2012  10:26    <DIR>          include
03/02/2012  10:26             5,579 install-sh
03/02/2012  10:26    <DIR>          lib
03/02/2012  10:26             1,490 libcurl.pc.in
03/02/2012  10:26           283,666 ltmain.sh
03/02/2012  10:26    <DIR>          m4
03/02/2012  10:26             5,099 MacOSX-Framework
03/02/2012  10:26             8,121 Makefile
03/02/2012  10:26             5,001 Makefile.am
03/02/2012  10:26            30,238 Makefile.in
03/02/2012  10:26             2,833 Makefile.msvc.names
03/02/2012  10:26             5,548 maketgz
03/02/2012  10:26             8,867 missing
03/02/2012  10:26               683 mkinstalldirs
03/02/2012  10:26    <DIR>          packages
03/02/2012  10:26             1,607 README
03/02/2012  10:26             7,428 RELEASE-NOTES
03/02/2012  10:26             1,973 sample.emacs
03/02/2012  10:26    <DIR>          src
03/02/2012  10:26    <DIR>          tests
03/02/2012  10:26               832 vc6curl.dsw
03/02/2012  10:26    <DIR>          winbuild
              31 File(s)      1,983,023 bytes
              11 Dir(s)  54,763,343,872 bytes free

[Peter Johnson]

Note that I wrote " Grab one of the binary zip files". You grabbed the source code instead. The binary ZIP should have only one file in it: curl.exe