On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 10:00 +0100, Jonathan Lauvernier wrote: > > > Will you release OpenConnect binaries or detail how to build it on > Windows soon please ? Building for Windows is fairly trivial. On a Fedora box, just: yum install mingw32-gnutls mingw32-libxml2 Then run 'mingw32-configure' and 'make' in the OpenConnect source tree. You'll end up with libopenconnect-3.dll and openconnect.exe in a .libs/ directory, and you need to copy those along with the other DLLs you need from /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/ to the Windows box. You can also use 'mingw64' instead of 'mingw32' to build a 64-bit version. You can test authentication (but obviously not *connections*) under wine without having to use Windows. You also need to install the Windows TAP driver. There's a signed version in the OpenVPN installer, which is probably the easiest option: http://openvpn.net/index.php/download/community-downloads.html I'm not stunningly keen on getting into the business of shipping binaries. Especially this week, when it occurs to me that I'd be scrambling to ship new versions of the GnuTLS DLL. On a platform which doesn't have any sane and coherent software update/repository handling. However, if anyone else wants to have a go at it then I won't dissuade them. Firstly, we probably want to put together a simple NSI installer for it, so that you don't have to copy files piecemeal. I'd happily accept patches to create a make target for that in the OpenConnect source tree, along the lines of the one that get_iplayer has: http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git/tree/HEAD:/windows (Don't be scared by that; it's quite a lot more complex than the OpenConnect one would be, since it has to download a lot of other non-bundled dependencies.) Once that's done, it should be fairly simple to make packages in something like the OpenSuSE Build System. We could even do nightly builds that way. I think subsurface does its Windows builds that way, or at least used to. It would also be interesting to see if we can put together a GUI for OpenConnect under Windows. Since fairly much everything can now be done through the library API, it might be easy enough just to wrap the API calls from your favourite scripting language... any language you can use to do rapid prototyping should be good enough, and all the *interesting* parts are done for you by the library. Personally, however, I've already spent *more* than enough time on the Windows build for now... :) -- dwmw2 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5745 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openconnect-devel/attachments/20140307/1e1929b8/attachment.bin>
