Confusing cURL build behavior

So if you get the Windows build of PHP, it gives you a php_curl.dll in the ext directory. But if you build from source with the configuration for --with-curl, it does not give you php_curl.dll, but the curl functions still work and exist?? I’m confused. What’s the difference? Why does one require the dll and the other doesn’t?

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