diff --git a/base/sysimg.jl b/base/sysimg.jl
index 7d5e505041676..f6bd1b8172cf4 100644
--- a/base/sysimg.jl
+++ b/base/sysimg.jl
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ let
             :REPL,
             :Statistics,
             :MozillaCACerts_jll,
+            :LibCURL_jll,
         ]
 
     maxlen = reduce(max, textwidth.(string.(stdlibs)); init=0)
diff --git a/deps/Makefile b/deps/Makefile
index a491e4f1a6eaa..c6115eb0eb0df 100644
--- a/deps/Makefile
+++ b/deps/Makefile
@@ -111,11 +111,9 @@ ifeq ($(USE_SYSTEM_LIBSSH2), 0)
 DEP_LIBS += libssh2
 endif
 
-ifneq ($(OS), WINNT)
 ifeq ($(USE_SYSTEM_CURL), 0)
 DEP_LIBS += curl
 endif
-endif
 
 DEP_LIBS += libgit2
 endif # USE_SYSTEM_LIBGIT2
diff --git a/stdlib/LibCURL_jll/Project.toml b/stdlib/LibCURL_jll/Project.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6fa50eedd4c7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stdlib/LibCURL_jll/Project.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+name = "LibCURL_jll"
+uuid = "deac9b47-8bc7-5906-a0fe-35ac56dc84c0"
+
+[deps]
+Libdl = "8f399da3-3557-5675-b5ff-fb832c97cbdb"
+
+[extra]
+Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
+
+[targets]
+test = ["Test"]
diff --git a/stdlib/LibCURL_jll/src/LibCURL_jll.jl b/stdlib/LibCURL_jll/src/LibCURL_jll.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6229f8118dfcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stdlib/LibCURL_jll/src/LibCURL_jll.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# This file is a part of Julia. License is MIT: https://julialang.org/license
+
+## dummy stub for https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/LibCURL_jll.jl
+
+module LibCURL_jll
+
+using Libdl
+
+export libcurl
+
+# These get calculated in __init__()
+libcurl_handle = C_NULL
+libcurl_path = ""
+
+if Sys.iswindows()
+    const libcurl = "libcurl-4.dll"
+elseif Sys.isapple()
+    const libcurl = "libcurl.4.dylib"
+else
+    const libcurl = "libcurl.so"
+end
+
+function __init__()
+    global libcurl_handle = dlopen(libcurl)
+    global libcurl_path = dlpath(libcurl_handle)
+end
+
+end  # module LibCURL_jll
diff --git a/stdlib/LibCURL_jll/test/runtests.jl b/stdlib/LibCURL_jll/test/runtests.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0e762827d346e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stdlib/LibCURL_jll/test/runtests.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+using Test
+using LibCURL_jll
+
+@testset "LibCURL_jll" begin
+    v = unsafe_string(ccall((:curl_version, libcurl), Cstring, ()))
+    @test startswith(v, "libcurl/")
+end
diff --git a/stdlib/Makefile b/stdlib/Makefile
index 3f5359f9bce84..98f3449d41aff 100644
--- a/stdlib/Makefile
+++ b/stdlib/Makefile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ STDLIBS = Artifacts Base64 CRC32c Dates DelimitedFiles Distributed FileWatching
           Future InteractiveUtils Libdl LibGit2 LinearAlgebra Logging \
           Markdown Mmap Printf Profile Random REPL Serialization SHA \
           SharedArrays Sockets SparseArrays SuiteSparse Test TOML Unicode UUIDs \
-          MozillaCACerts_jll
+          MozillaCACerts_jll LibCURL_jll
 
 STDLIBS_EXT = Pkg Statistics
 PKG_GIT_URL := git://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl.git
diff --git a/test/precompile.jl b/test/precompile.jl
index 9ec0c16dc5f9f..f331cc0afbaab 100644
--- a/test/precompile.jl
+++ b/test/precompile.jl
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ try
                  :Future, :Libdl, :LinearAlgebra, :Logging, :Mmap, :Printf,
                  :Profile, :Random, :Serialization, :SharedArrays, :SparseArrays, :SuiteSparse, :Test,
                  :Unicode, :REPL, :InteractiveUtils, :Pkg, :LibGit2, :SHA, :UUIDs, :Sockets,
-                 :Statistics, :TOML, :MozillaCACerts_jll,]),
+                 :Statistics, :TOML, :MozillaCACerts_jll, :LibCURL_jll,]),
                 # Plus precompilation module generated at build time
                 let id = Base.PkgId("__PackagePrecompilationStatementModule")
                     Dict(id => Base.module_build_id(Base.root_module(id)))