On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 02:58:59PM +0200, Allan Swanepoel wrote: >> Hi All, I'm fairly new to building openvpn for windows (have been >> building on Linux since 2.0), >> I have a small customization that I make to the openvpn sourcecode to >> call external software on initialization, and would like to build a >> Windows build with this in. > > You can do two things - cross-build with mingw under linux (producing > openvpn.exe binaries for windows), or build with mingw+msys under > windows. > > If you want to do the latter, read the file "domake-win" in the OpenVPN > source tree - it's the script that does the windows building, and it > contains the instructions as well. > > If you use the pre-compiled tun/tap driver from the 2.1.3 windows > bundle, you don't need the MS DDK/WDK, just msys+mingw and the NSIS > installer-builder.
Won't msys & mingw then become dependencies for running openvpn? > > gert > -- > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > //www.muc.de/~gert/ > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de > fax: +49-89-35655025 g...@net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de > -- We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. - Jeff Marder ------------------------------------------ Allan Swanepoel allanice...@gmail.com allanice....@unix.net dragonmas...@linaccess.com +27 71 850 5554 Linux User #452990 Linux Machine #360914 ----------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the yorkshire terrier next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft: However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets.
