title: pycurl installation on Windows
body: <p>I am not able to install pycurl on Windows on Python2.6. Getting following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Documents and Settings\vijayendra\Desktop\Downloads\pycurl-7.19.0&gt;python setup.py install --curl-dir="C:\Documents and Settings\vijayendra\Desktop\Downloads\
  curl-7.19.5-win32-ssl\curl-7.19.5"
  Using curl directory: C:\Documents and Settings\vijayendra\Desktop\Downloads\curl-7.19.5-win32-ssl\curl-7.19.5
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "setup.py", line 210, in &lt;module&gt;
      assert os.path.isfile(o), o
  AssertionError: C:\Documents and Settings\vijayendra\Desktop\Downloads\curl-7.19.5-win32-ssl\curl-7.19.5\lib\libcurl.lib
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any idea what is this error about and how to fix this?</p>