Why is curl still linked on Android in v3.12?

[pandemosth]

Continuing the discussion from OpenSSL problem again:

OpenSSL problem again

@zhangxm @ricardo I am bit confused. I was under the impression that 3.9 (or 3.8) removed dependency on CURL for android and IOS. Infact, It doesn’t seem like any android files depend on CURL (I am on 3.10). However Android.mk files still reference curl. So isn’t a simpler solution just to exclude all CURL dependencies from all Android.mk files ?

@zhangxm @ricardo I have the same question - why is Android still linking cURL in 3.10+? HTTPClient and CCDownloader now use Android native http stack.

[zhangxm]

Yep, i think we can remove it in Android.mk. I don’t know why it still there, but i think it will not affect your codes if you don’t use it directly. I created this issue to trace it.

[pandemosth]

Great, thanks

[zhangxm]

@pandemosth where is CURL linked? I can not find it.

[pandemosth]

cocos2d/cocos2d-x/blob/cocos2d-x-3.12/cocos/network/Android.mk