On 10/14/2015 7:55 PM, Davin Church wrote:
Greetings, list!
I've been using Bacula 3.0.3a for some years now on my home
Windows-only network, but I would like to upgrade to a more recent
version of the community version. I understand that more-recent
pre-compiled Windows binaries (except for the FD) are no longer
available for the community product, and Bacula Enterprise is too
expensive for my needs. I do know that Bacula Systems also offers a
Windows binary build for the FD, but I need to be able to run the SD &
Dir on Windows as well.
Therefore, I think I am relegated to compiling my own binaries from
the source. However, I don't have the time (or probably the
knowledge/skill either) to create a full build environment from
scratch here on my system. But since I can run virtual machines here,
I was wondering if anyone has managed to produce a standalone VM
system that is configured to compile Windows binaries from the
community source? If I could just load up a working VM system image
(even a non-Windows one) and supply it the current source code, I
think that would be enough to allow me to compile the system that I
need myself.
Does anyone know of such a standalone VM that is available for folks
like me to use? Or does anyone have any better ideas for me to try?
I tried searching the list archives, but I could only narrow it down
to 21K+ messages for manual review, so I hope you'll forgive me if
this has been asked and answered before.
You can cross-compile Windows binaries from Linux. Centos 7 has RPMs for
mingw32 and mingw64 and most likely all of the needed third-party libraries.
Compilation is not the issue, but rather that Bacula stopped developing
for Windows SD and Dir quite some time ago. It is likely that a great
deal of work would be needed.
Why not just run Linux in a Hyper-V VM and run SD and Dir on that?
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