Compiling C source code for Windows using libcurl

Compiling C source code for Windows using libcurl using mingw32 and libcurl32. The command line below:

gcc -c -I "c:\curl\include" -L "c:\curl\lib" -o simple.exe simple.c

The compilation runs successfully, generating the exe file. But when I try to run it I get the message:

Unsupported 16-bit application. The program or feature "simple.exe" cannot start or run due to an incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows.

gcc (MinGW-W64 i686-ucrt-posix-dwarf, built by Brecht Sanders) 12.2.0

curl 7.83.1 (Windows) libcurl/7.83.1 Schannel Release-Date: 2022-05-13 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps http https imap imaps pop3 pop3s smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: AsynchDNS HSTS IPv6 Kerberos Largefile NTLM SPNEGO SSL SSPI UnixSockets

My code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl;
  CURLcode res;

  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
    /* example.com is redirected, so we tell libcurl to follow redirection */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);

    /* Perform the request, res will get the return code */
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    /* Check for errors */
    if(res != CURLE_OK)
      fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
              curl_easy_strerror(res));

    /* always cleanup */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
  return 0;
}