Re: [Autogen-users] autoopt and Windows . . .

[Geof S. <Geo...@ut...>]

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for your pointers on this, and congrats on your tcpreplay project.

I'm attempting to do this on the MinGW path so that we can distribute without Cygwin dependencies . . .

I'll let you know how it goes!

Geof



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Turner [mailto:syn...@gm...]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:09 AM
> Cc: Geof Sawaya; autogen
> Subject: Re: [Autogen-users] autoopt and Windows . . .
> 
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Bruce Korb <bk...@gn...> wrote:
> > Hi Geof,
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Geof Sawaya <Geo...@ut...>
> wrote:
> >> Hi Bruce,
> >>
> >> I have our Linux build working fine, your suggestions made it much
> cleaner.
> >>
> >> But our project also includes a Windows build.
> >> It appears that I'm clueless on how to build the libopt library for
> Windows.
> >>
> >> After tweaking #includes (including adding windows-config.h to *-
> opts.h)
> >>  and commenting out windows-config.h: typedef unsigned long
> uintptr_t
> >> (because it is defined in VC/include/vadefs.h, and the types look
> similar),
> >
> > I can fix the configure script to cope with this.
> > I wish I could understand why MSoft had to go find new and better
> > headers for stashing stuff like that.  :(
> >
> >>  I'm getting unresolved linker errors on optionProcess and my
> *Options
> >> struct.
> >>
> >> Can you give me an easy recipe to build this?
> >
> > Unfortunately, I cannot.  Hopefully, someone on the users list may
> have
> > some good suggestions.  I do not use Windows myself.
> 
> Geof,
> 
> I'm not a big windows user by anymeans, but I have been able to build
> autogen & use autoopts under Windows w/ Cygwin via gcc in my own
> project.  Doesn't seem to be any way to build it natively under
> Windows though that I'm aware of.
> 
> I documented the steps necessary to get Autogen working properly under
> Cygwin here:
> http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/trac/browser/trunk/docs/Win32Readme.txt
> 
> Code which compiles under Cygwin is here:
> http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/trac/browser/branches/3.4
> 
> and is available via svn:
> 
> https://www.synfin.net/svn/tcpreplay/branches/3.4
> 
> Honestly, I never had to do anything like you're describing above so I
> don't have a good answer for you.
> 
> --
> Aaron Turner
> http://synfin.net/
> http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix &
> Windows
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