Thanks for all the comments and suggestions.. just an update that I managed to build with CYGWIN without too many problems (surprise!)
If anyone wants to know how to build under cygwin in the future: 1. Install CYGWIN 2. Install modules: gcc, openssl-devel, make, gcd, pcre (I think that was all ;) 3. Decompress the pound-2.5.tgz tar/gz 4. build the platform (I wanted to have the files in c:\pound\bin and c:\pound\etc thus I used the "--prefix=c:/pound" - note the slash direction CYGWIN needs the c: to understand what you are trying to do!) ./configure --prefix=c:/pound --with-ssl --disable-super make 5. make the directory structure under windows mkdir /cygdrive/c/pound mkdir /cygdrive/c/pound/bin mkdir /cygdrive/c/pound/etc 6. copy the cygwin running environment cp pound*.exe /cygdrive/c/pound/bin cp /usr/bin/cygcrypto*.dll /cygdrive/c/pound/bin cp /usr/bin/cygwin1*.dll /cygdrive/c/pound/bin cp /usr/bin/cyggcc*.dll /cygdrive/c/pound/bin cp /usr/bin/cygpcre*.dll /cygdrive/c/pound/bin cp /usr/bin/cygssl*.dll /cygdrive/c/pound/bin Go back to windows, cd into c:\pound\bin and do a "pound.exe -v" (remember - any posix folder structures in your pound.cfg (ie. You .pem file location) will need changing.) I am testing this as a non-daemon and appears to work fine right now... very little impact to CPU etc.. certainly looks promising! Hope this helps someone else in the future. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Michael Weinbergs Sent: Thursday, 17 June 2010 9:23 AM To: pound@apsis.ch Subject: RE: [Pound Mailing List] RE: Ported to Windows? I should have been a little clearer in my post :) 1) Distribute = bad choice of words... pound will be behind three remote links as "backups". Their configs will be identical. Distribution is the word I chose for getting replicative setups (pound.cfg) on each remote link. I didn't mean "distributed-as-in-clustering". Sorry. 2) I run vSphere in production and DR now - and there is a separate project to P2V the remote sites to vSphere... but unfortunately this pound-project has been bumped up the list - chicken-or-egg scenario. The Windows-based solution I seek is only temporary, until I get those sites virtualised. (BTW: I did consider VMware server/workstation at the sites - but they are just too underpowered - the virtualises project is part of a hardware refresh). 3) after I sent the post I started to think about CYGWIN. That's my project for today. I eventually noticed (once I discredited all of spurious google results) that this is well-trodden ground (eventually found someone posted a W32-Pound-2.3-no-ssl on the 'net).. I'll see how I go with this today and it might be the perfect temporary solution (yes, I do understand it will be slow and sluggish... but better than what I have now!) Just so you understand where I come from here: we had a 6 hour outage recently that even a BGP re-route could fix (the outage was in the ISP's core and took out all the BGP routes - as you can imagine - a big problem affecting a LOT of companies and a 1 in a million...). it was an outage that was "never suppose to ever happen" - but it did. Of course, this all came about whilst I was concurrently doing an ISO270002 audit... so is now in the register and thus - "urgent" ;) That's where I came across pound. With it I can keep provision of webservices via a few other (different ISP) links.. and mitigate the risks. Thanks to you all for your comments.. my apologies for not being clearer in my post. While I'm here: Does anyone know a trick to get DNS "IN A" records to have a preference (like "IN MX Preference")? My next hurdle is - now I have pound at each of the sites - I only want the remote sites involved during an outage. If I put the IP's in to the A record (or CNAME them) - I will essentially be doing round-robin or "first reply".. The only way I can think to do this is to manually manipulate the NS records, wait for DNS cache to refresh to pick up the new sites. I'm concerned that the backup links will be slow so I don't want any client to use them unless the core link is down. If anyone has an idea to that I would appreciate feedback! __________________________ Michael Weinbergs Network Administrator -----Original Message----- From: Joe Gooch [mailto:mrwiz...@k12system.com] Sent: Thursday, 17 June 2010 12:04 AM To: pound@apsis.ch Subject: [Pound Mailing List] RE: Ported to Windows? You say distribute... which in my experience is fraught with problems :) Pound depends on libpthread, which is of *nix design. The only way I've been able to get it to run on Windows is using Cygwin. MSys didn't compile right, and I don't have the requisite knowledge to do a MSVC++ native binary, replacing pthread with appropriate Win APIs. So cygwin is really the only option. I've compiled binaries for pound on Cygwin before... They generally don't perform as well as the Linux native ones I use, which isn't surprising given the emulation layer. Plus, if you have more than one different version of cygwin.dll on the same machine you can have all sorts of stability issues. (for instance, openssh and pound with different dlls) The best option is to install cygwin on the server and compile it there. Make sure you install the compiling tools (make, gcc, etc) and the libraries you need (pcre, openssl, etc), and cygrunsrv if you want to run it as a service. Last time I compiled with ./configure --disable-super --with-ssl. >From that point on you can configure and use it normally... You can use cygrunsrv to install it as a service. Compiling on one machine and trying to distribute is more problematic because of cygwin.dll collisions... I've done it before, just copy pound.exe to a directory on the destination server. Run it and copy every dll it complains about from the source system to the destination folder. Repeat until all dlls are copied. Make sure no other cygwin.dll or cygwin1.dll is on the system. I wish you luck! 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