I'm not a fan of Windows platform, and cannot offer support for it myself. But I see no harm if somebody is willing to maintain this as a part of the project. Certainly after 5.6.3 is out.
Sent from my iPad > On Jul 4, 2015, at 06:03, Jean-Pierre Münch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Am 04.07.2015 um 00:16 schrieb Jeffrey Walton: >> I have some experience in Inno installers. We can provide an Installer for >> windows that: >> >> * provides the headers, in say, C:\CryptoPP\include >> * provides the static and dynamic libraries in subfolders of, say, >> C:\CryptoPP\lib >> * installs cryptest.exe in %SYSTEM32% >> * installs the data files in the %APPDATA% folder (needs the DataDir patch >> at http://www.cryptopp.com/wiki/DataDir) >> >> Would this be useful for folks who just want things to work without building >> the library and managing project settings? >> > Personally, I wouldn't use this. For libraries I always prefer building from > source (if possible), so I can make sure it inter-ops with my compiler > version. The current process of building Crypto++ is already quite > comfortable. You extract it somewhere, open VS, and hit "Build" and it just > builds and is fully working (in a few minutes). > > So, as a experiment I think we can offer it and see how many people use it as > soon as we have an "official" release (5.7.0 / 5.6.3) finished. >> I bring it up because Shining Light's Win32OpenSSL is fairly popular. (But >> OpenSSL on Windows is a little tougher than Crypto++). > And I think OpenSSL installer / pre-built binaries is a lot more useful than > Crypto++, because all what people need from OpenSSl is the openssl command > line tool (in 90% of the cases). But personally I've never used cryptest.exe > yet... > > BR > > JPM >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Crypto++ Users" >> Google Group. >> To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]. >> More information about Crypto++ and this group is available at >> http://www.cryptopp.com. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Crypto++ Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Crypto++ Users" > Google Group. > To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]. > More information about Crypto++ and this group is available at > http://www.cryptopp.com. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Crypto++ Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Crypto++ Users" Google Group. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]. More information about Crypto++ and this group is available at http://www.cryptopp.com. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Crypto++ Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
