On 13-Sep-10, at 2:25 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:
Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
The whole build environment of openvpn is malformed, using two
separate build systems for windows and posix,
Only two? Oh that's nothing. We're having lots of fun with build
systems in libusb-1.0, where each contributing Windows developer
actually requires a separate build system. So we have stuff for VC6,
VS2005, VS2008, DDK/WDK, MinGW and Cygwin. :)
I consider diversity of working build environments a net benefit to
the project. It's another useful axis of portability and helps rub off
non-portable burrs.
Fortunately at least
the last two use autotools, and I do consider that the canonical
build method since it covers all supported systems, and allows
automated packaging on a POSIX host, which is what still dominates in
the project. But the Windows support is important, as are the
developers, and as long as someone agrees to maintain a particular
build method then I think it's fine to offer it on some kind of
best-effort basis.
autotools is absolutely alien in Windows, and to be honest a bit of a
hassle to set up if you're already a VS wizard.
NMAKE is convenient for Windows builds as it will also happily run
under Linux/WINE, targeting both 32 and 64 bit Windows runtimes with
the 'freely downloadable' Express toolchain. It may even be possible
to combine autotools with the Microsoft compiler, though I haven't
tried it (CC="wine cl", etc).
--Toby
and the mixture of different projects: openvpn, tap, windows
installer, easy-rsa.
How can the installer situation be improved? I want to make an NSIS
installer as well, and I would quite like to keep it *within* the
project..? Is there a much better way?
//Peter
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances
and start using them to simplify application deployment and
accelerate your shift to cloud computing
http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev
_______________________________________________
Openvpn-devel mailing list
Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
