Hi, Thanks! Yes I know it's dead, but I thought that, since I did it I might take a minute to share my findings, just in case. Can't hurt I suppose!...
I'll try the new build system as well. Many thanks, Athanasios On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <alon.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am just in the process of rewriting the openvpn build system. > > Some documentation is available[1]. > > In your case, as you build on Windows, cygwin environment is the > appropriate environment. cygwin contains the new mingw toolchain from > mingw-w64 (including 32bit). > > cygwin is maintain, while msys is long dead. > > Please try it out. > > Thanks, > Alon Bar-Lev. > > [1] > https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/BuildingUsingGenericBuildsystem > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Athanasios Douitsis <aduit...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > First of all, let me say that I am delighted to see 2.3 approaching final > > release. This is truly great. > > > > Just wanted to let you know that there may be some rough edges when > trying > > to use the source tarball to compile openvpn using mingw32. I suppose > nobody > > uses mingw anymore, so this not too important, but anyway: > > > > 1.To get pass the ./configure phase in makeopenvpn, I had to insert a > > CFLAGS=' -I /c/mingw/include/ddk' before the ./configure invocation. The > > following check: > > > > dnl ipv6 support > > AC_CHECKING([for struct sockaddr_in6 for IPv6 support]) > > AC_CHECK_TYPE( > > [struct sockaddr_in6], > > [], > > [AC_MSG_ERROR([struct sockaddr_in6 not found, needed for ipv6 > > transport support.])], > > [#include "syshead.h"]) > > > > in configure.ac could not find the ntddndis.h (located among other > places in > > /c/mingw/include/ddk) which is included in syshead.h:357. Maybe the > > configure.ac needs a little change but I'm not sure what change exactly. > > Note, my installation used to be able to compile everything up to 2.2.1 > > without tinkering. Since these headers are a seemingly new requirement, > > maybe a new command line option is needed in the configure script? > > > > 2.There is also a small error in makeopenvpn, in line 59, instead of > GENOUT, > > it says GENOOUT. Which, of course, leads to breakage :) Easily fixed, > that > > one. > > 3.Also, compiling OpenSSL from the source package leads to lib/ and bin/ > > directories under the openssl target path, so the relevant openvpn script > > (getopenssl) needs adjustment. Attaching my version for your reference. > This > > is not strictly an error, just letting everyone know. > > > > Best Regards, > > -- > > Athanasios Douitsis > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Openvpn-devel mailing list > > Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel > > > -- Athanasios Douitsis
