Re: Problem with silc toolkit 0.9 on win32

[Matthew A. <ma...@al...>]

Zed Shaw wrote:

>So, I've tracked down this strange bug in silc toolkit that I can't
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>...
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>VC++ .NET (although, this problem also existed in mingw).
>Silc Toolkit 0.9
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fwiw, i'm using mingw/silc-toolkit-0.9, and it's working for me,
albeit with some extra effort. (which I can't recall completely,
but I hope this helps)

I had to ensure the correct environment variables were used,
so, setenv CC i386-mingw32-gcc, etc. The AR/RANLIB variable
isn't used correctly in some places, so the Makefiles/configures
etc, were changed to specifically refer to i386-mingw32-ar and
i386-mingw32-ranlib.

Then, somewhere (sorry, I can't recall), I defined..

#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0400
#define __W32API_MAJOR_VERSION 1

With mingw32, this will cause silcwin32net.c to fail, but don't worry.

Comment out the references to socket variables in silc_net_win32_init,
and then launch configure..

 ./configure --enable-debug --host=mingw32 --with-win32 --disable-asm 
--disable-threads

Watch the build process to make sure the correct cross compiler
binaries are used, etc, and you should end up with a mingw32 version
of the silc libraries.

Now (this is the weird bit), you need a mingw32 version of
silcunixschedule.o .

I edited silcunixschedule.c, removing references to signals (cross
compiler will let you know.) You may have to edit the silcutil/Makefile
to use the unix subdir (I can't recall), but you only need this file.
Build it from the silcutil/unix directory or silcutil directory. (?)

Return to the srcdir subdirectory, and build the silc libraries again.
Because of a bug/feature in the way things are built, the
silcunixschedule.o will be included in the win32 version of the
silclibrary. (As well as silcwin32schedule.o)

Use i386-mingw32-nm to make sure silcunixschedule.o appears before
silcwin32schedule.o (and then silcschedule.o), after i386-mingw32-ranlib
has been done from the Makefile.

Then, do a make install. (you probably don't want this in /usr/local/silc,
so use a --prefix=/usr/local/MSW/silc in the configure call above.)

Copy contrib/getopt.h to /usr/local/MSW/silc/include, and then edit
/usr/local/MSW/silc/include/silcincludes.h, replacing references to
"../contrib/getopt.h" with "getopt.h".

This should result in a build environment for silc under mingw32
cross compilation. What you do with it now, is up to you. :)

Hope this helps ?

Kind regards,
Ma...@Al...