Re: [Openvpn-devel] mingw32-built openvpn-2.3-alpha1

2012-03-13 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Athanasios Douitsis wrote: > A question then: The generic method is supposed to be invoked from cmd or > from the cygwin shell? Because I suspect the cygwin bash shell dislikes the > carriage returns in the build script so naturally one must convert the files > bef

Re: [Openvpn-devel] mingw32-built openvpn-2.3-alpha1

2012-03-13 Thread Athanasios Douitsis
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Athanasios Douitsis > wrote: > > > > Hi again, > > > > Some more feedback. > > > > 1.Trying to use MSVC2010 (or later I suppose) to build the project using > > the new method outlined in your link, I noticed

Re: [Openvpn-devel] mingw32-built openvpn-2.3-alpha1

2012-03-13 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Athanasios Douitsis wrote: > > Hi again, > > Some more feedback. > > 1.Trying to use MSVC2010 (or later I suppose) to build the project using > the new method outlined in your link, I noticed that 'vcbuild' has been > removed after vc2008. They recommend using msbu

Re: [Openvpn-devel] mingw32-built openvpn-2.3-alpha1

2012-03-13 Thread Athanasios Douitsis
Hi again, Some more feedback. 1.Trying to use MSVC2010 (or later I suppose) to build the project using the new method outlined in your link, I noticed that 'vcbuild' has been removed after vc2008. They recommend using msbuild, whatever that is, which requires different cli parameters and also re

Re: [Openvpn-devel] mingw32-built openvpn-2.3-alpha1

2012-03-09 Thread Athanasios Douitsis
Hi, Thanks! Yes I know it's dead, but I thought that, since I did it I might take a minute to share my findings, just in case. Can't hurt I suppose!... I'll try the new build system as well. Many thanks, Athanasios On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > Hello, > > I am just in

Re: [Openvpn-devel] mingw32-built openvpn-2.3-alpha1

2012-03-09 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Hello, I am just in the process of rewriting the openvpn build system. Some documentation is available[1]. In your case, as you build on Windows, cygwin environment is the appropriate environment. cygwin contains the new mingw toolchain from mingw-w64 (including 32bit). cygwin is maintain, whil

[Openvpn-devel] mingw32-built openvpn-2.3-alpha1

2012-03-09 Thread Athanasios Douitsis
Hi everyone, First of all, let me say that I am delighted to see 2.3 approaching final release. This is truly great. Just wanted to let you know that there may be some rough edges when trying to use the source tarball to compile openvpn using mingw32. I suppose nobody uses mingw anymore, so this