Mark, When I get time I'll clean up the implementation and post the source to this list. In the meantime I'll send you the binary tomorrow when I'm at work.
Regards, Steven -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jaffe Sent: Monday, 10 May 2004 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Win32 compiles under cygwin Steven, Thanks for your response. This sounds like it would be an excellent solution to my dilemma. Please feel free to forward your contribution as you see fit. Mark On May 9, 2004, at 5:40 PM, Steven Reddie wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I've written a command-line utility called gcc2cl which acts like a > gcc front-end while using Microsoft's compiler/linker at the backend. > It translates options and does some munging of cl's stdout/stderr so > as to fool autoconf into thinking it is really using gcc. This > enables us (I did this > at Computer Associates) to do a fairly standard OpenSSL cygwin build > while > using the Microsoft compiler/linker/libraries/runtime. Would this > help you > in any way? I've tried to contribute it to cygwin but was surprised > that > there was no interest. We also use it to build OpenLDAP, libxml2, > log4cplus, and others almost out-of-the-box. Being able to avoid the > OpenSSL .bat files and nmake makefiles helps us to integrate with our > cross > platform automated build process. > > Regards, > > Steven > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Mark Jaffe > Sent: Monday, 10 May 2004 7:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Win32 compiles under cygwin > > > > Greetings to all. I am responsible to the build environment at OSAF, > and we are integrating openssl into the Chandler product. I am > concerned about generating the correct configuration, and wonder if > someone has a solution. > > What we do when we incorporate an open-source project into ours is to > prepare a script which sets up the configuration for each supported > platform (Win32, linux, and OS X for now.) When we run make, it untars > the source tarball, applies our patches and then does a configure and > a make, installing the libraries into our distribution path. Where I > am running into problems is in dealing with the Win32 build situation. > We use the cygwin environment, and several of our projects already are > compatible in that we call nmake and a DOS-path compatible make file > which is working nicely. However, applying this method to the openssl > tree has presented some difficulty. I have so far been successful in > running a patched ms/32all.bat to generate the required xx.mak files, > but the results still contain "-" style option flags rather than the > desired "/" style. I am stumped at this point. Of course, I could do > this under a local command-line but this is not available from remote > ssh or in the environment in which we run the tinderbox. > > Any suggestions? > > Mark > ======================================================== > Mark Jaffe | (415) 946-3028 (work) > Release Engineer | (408) 807-2093 (cell) > OSAF | (415) 946-3001 (FAX) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.osafoundation.org/ > PGP Fingerprint: 3435 EB88 6424 F5DF F2CA EF16 2DBF DFEF 143C 1ADE > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ======================================================== Mark Jaffe | (415) 946-3028 (work) Release Engineer | (408) 807-2093 (cell) OSAF | (415) 946-3001 (FAX) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.osafoundation.org/ PGP Fingerprint: 3435 EB88 6424 F5DF F2CA EF16 2DBF DFEF 143C 1ADE ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
