Hi, > This patch enables building openvpn with Visual Studio 2017. > > It is advised to use openvpn-build/msvs/build.bat which > also downloads and build required dependencies.
I was very delighted to see this contribution. However, after hours of struggling to compile and prepare pre-requisites, I gave up my attempts to test this patch. The openvpn-build/msvc/build.bat was indeed helpful, though a bit outdated to be directly usable. I managed to compile all pre-requisites but one: pkcs11-helper. It requires autoconf. Tried with autoconf for Windows from Git bash (about the only one I got on my Windows) and it throws an error I couldn't understand what Perl and/or Bash were missing. Copied one missing file from its .in template and manually replacing @XY@ variables only to find out new missing files over and over again. Finally, I gave up. Any suggestions? Now, I have begun to question the rationale of this patch... If it is too hard to setup building environment for me (Visual Studio is my daily working environment from 1998), I question its use to other Windows developers. Would have been nice to add Windows 10 ARM64 support, but remembered somebody needs to compile pre-requisites for ARM64 nightmare... BTW, I have a patch in my forked repo re-establishing Visual Studio 2017 support for compiling openvpnserv.exe. I needed it to debug while developing support for multi-instances. Unfortunately, I didn't see much added value for the rest of the world to post it here. This one was much nicer to get working in VS2017, since it has no external pre-requisites. Best regards, Simon
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