Hi Athanasios, > Right, so this is because c99 and VS don't mix. Thanks very much Gert. > > To explain why I'm trying to do this: Our institution uses OpenVPN to > provide remote access (e.g. access to electronic libraries, etc) to > its users. So we used to build openvpn and package it very very > similarly to the official release (we were using msys and nsis) along > with a couple of our conf files. However, domake-win has been removed > in 2.3 so I am trying to figure out the best way to do it. What would > be ideal would be the thing that tunnelblick does with deployed mode > (http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/wiki/cCusDeployed). The admin > does not have to build anything, just open the package and drop a > deploy folder to the appropriate location. Sadly the windows package > does not include something similar, so lots of work need to be done to > build a customized package. > I'll look into current status of openvpn-build/msvc and setup a Windows buildslave to ensure it stays in working order. I really haven't touched that buildsystem after doing the initial testing way back when.
The official Windows packages have been cross-compiled on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. As you used "domake-win" earlier, I'd suggest you set up a cross-compilation box, too: <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/BuildingUsingGenericBuildsystem#Cross-compilingonNIXgenericsubdir> <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/BuildingUsingGenericBuildsystem#CreatingaNSISinstallerwindows-nsissubdir> After the build environment has been setup, you will need to customize two files: - openvpn-build/windows-nsis/build-complete.vars - openvpn-build/generic/build.vars Alternatively, you can override the values in them using environment variables. Most of the dependencies for openvpn-build are available here: <http://build.openvpn.net/downloads/releases> You can modify openvpn-build/windows-nsis/openvpn.nsi to install custom files/directories using "File /r": <http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.9.1.5> If you have any issues setting up a cross-compilation box, just let me know. > BTW, if you are referring to > > https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/BuildingUsingGenericBuildsystem#BuildingnativelyonWindowsusingtheMSVCtoolchainmsvcsubdir > > I am sorry to say that the info on this page outdated, one has to do > quite a few things differently to proceed. The biggest gripe is that > the scripts that are mentioned try to download stuff directly from > github but github has changed the way it exposes its files. In > addition, it tries to download some files from Alon's repo and not > from the official openvpn repo. And now that I mention it, I think > that the github repo is not synced to the official git so 2.3 is not > really available there. The build configuration can and should be changed. That said, I think openvpn-build default values should make sense, i.e. work out of the box. I'll send a patch that fixes this. Best regards, -- Samuli Seppänen Community Manager OpenVPN Technologies, Inc irc freenode net: mattock
