Malte S. Stretz wrote:
I guess only spamd needs Net::DNS, right? :) And is Net::DNS really required by the Win version or is it only optional (like under Unix) but *if* it's installed, at least v0.44 is needed?
Net::DNS is only used for perl network stuff. In Win32 it is only needed if you are going to run spamassassin with network tests. spamd doesn't run in Win32, and spamc isn't written in perl.
Net::DNS is nice to have if you are building Spamassassin under Win32, even if all you want to get out of it is the spamc.exe executable, because then it is possible to get a clean 'nmake test'. I can see it being typical, though, for someone to download just the binary executable spamc.exe for their Win32 system, have it talk to a spamd running under Cygwin or on a different machine altogether, and not even need to install perl.
Now that I think about it, it might be worth documenting how to build spamc without needing perl... In addition to the compiler environment requirements that are already documented, it just requires renaming either the win32.config file to config.h, and then using nmake -f on either win32ssl.mak or win32nossl.mak. But the tests still require perl.
And a question about the Makefile(s): Doesn't configure work under cygwin? If not, what doesn't work?
Yes, configure works under cygwin. I don't think I had to change anything in spamc for Cygwin, only for Win32. The only problems I had with Cygwin were getting spamd to work because of Net::DNS bugs.
-- sidney
