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in reply to Re^7: Can't call libcurl with Inline::C on Windows
in thread Can't call libcurl with Inline::C on Windows

This might be tangential, but have you tried using Alien::curl and forcing a shared install so it downloads and compiles a recent version?

Access to the libs is then via Alien::curl->libs and similar. See the examples in the Alien::curl and Alien::Base documentation.