Error compiling: fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory

[jmccl]

$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .
-- TARGET_ARCH not specified; inferring host OS to be platform compilation target
-- Generating linux build config
-- Dynamic linking enabled
-- Custom memory management enabled; stl objects now using custom allocators
-- Install binary prefix: linux/intel64
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/XXXX/third_party/aws-sdk-cpp
$ make
Scanning dependencies of target aws-cpp-sdk-core
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In file included from /home/john/third_party/aws-sdk-cpp/aws-cpp-sdk-core/include/aws/core/http/curl/CurlHttpClient.h:20:0,
from /home/john/third_party/aws-sdk-cpp/aws-cpp-sdk-core/source/http/HttpClientFactory.cpp:19:
/home/XXXX/third_party/aws-sdk-cpp/aws-cpp-sdk-core/include/aws/core/http/curl/CurlHandleContainer.h:23:23: fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

[jmccl]

Found the comment in the README. Can you consider this a 'doc' bug and put this text up in the 'building' section?

sudo apt-get install libcurl-dev

[JonathanHenson]

Thank you for your contribution!

Can you put your desired change into a pull request, so that we can properly prioritze changes and resources.