[privoxy-devel] [ ijbswa-Support Requests-737408 ] hide-console

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Support Requests item #737408, was opened at 2003-05-13 21:39
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Category: configuration
Group: 3.0.x
>Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Andreas Oesterhelt (oes)
Summary: hide-console

Initial Comment:
It may be that I have misunderstood the documentation. If so, forgive me.

I am running Privoxy ver 3.0.2 on a Windows 2000 machine.

I see the config.txt file indicating that if I enable the hide-console option, it will:

#  The "hide-console" option is specific to the MS-Win console version
#  of Privoxy.  If this option is used, Privoxy will disconnect from
#  and hide the command console.

1) is the "console version" different than what I have downloaded and run?

I enable this option and the console still appears.

2) can I elliminate the system task bar icon of Privoxy so it cannot be seen by the casual user?

I would like to distribute a copy of Privoxy to a set of parents that would like to use it for more than simply a "crude-parental" block but in fact an effective one. (a possible Dan's Guardian for windows). I can give them another way to interface with the config files. I would prefer not making the console interface stand out so the kiddies do not see an easy way to modify files.

Thanks for any responses you have to offer. Thanks for putting the time into this project. I have been using the software for several days and find it very helpful.

David Payer
www.iowalink.com
admin (at) iowalink.com


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>Comment By: Hal Burgiss (hal9)
Date: 2003-05-26 22:01

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Right track, but you need to run 'autoconf' first. Its
another GNU tool that creates the configure script.

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Comment By: David Payer (dpayer)
Date: 2003-05-25 17:53

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Thank you for your help. I have not quite gotten it to work 
as you stated below. 

When I try to do the command:

./configure --enable-mingw32

I get:  

BASH: ./configure: No such file or directory

So many apologies. I am not a regular unix user so I go 
slow.

Do I run GCC manually and then have it process certain 
files? The only config*.* files are:
config,v
configure.in,v
config.guess,v
config.sub,v

Am I on the right track or totally off here?

Thanks in advance.
David Payer

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-05-17 18:15

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AFAIK, if you include "--enable-mingw32", you get the GUI 
version; if you just do "./configure" you get the console 
version (which depends on the cygwin libs, BTW, whereas 
the mingw one is standalone.)

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Comment By: Andreas Oesterhelt (oes)
Date: 2003-05-17 13:35

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David,

> 1) is the "console version" different than what I have downloaded and run?      
> 2) can I elliminate the system task bar icon of Privoxy so it cannot be seen by the casual user? 

Yes to both. Privoxy can be compiled without the GUI stuff on Win32. You need
a C compiler (preferrably gcc) installed on your system to do that (though it's
of course not required to run the resulting binary).

Short instructions (unverified):
 - Go to www.cygwin.com
 - download and install a basic system including gcc, make, perl, sed, tar
 - download the source 
 - in a cygwin shell, do:
   - tar xvzf WHERE-EVER-YOU-PUT-THE-SOURCE.tar.gz
   - cd current
   - ./configure --enable-mingw32
   - make

That should result in a "console" version Privoxy in your current directory.


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