Re: [sleuthkit-developers] win32 live bugs?

[Brian C. <ca...@sl...>]

Hi Michael,

I received at least one inquery about mingw-gcc support. I haven't  
had a chance to look into it though.  What would be required to add  
support for it into TSK?

brian

On Jul 21, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Michael Cohen wrote:

> Brian,
>   Would there be any interest in sharing the gcc produced binaries
> which can be easily cross compiled form the main source distribution.
> These are static and dont use MFC at all and are very small - they use
> mingw-gcc and run natively with no dlls required.
>
> Michael.
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Brian Carrier  
> <ca...@sl...> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 21, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Darren Bilby wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for taking a look at this, replies inline.
>>>
>>> Darren.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Brian Carrier
>>> <ca...@sl...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ok, I'll add a variation of this in, but only if the path has the
>>>> form of
>>>>  "\\.\?:" because I don't want random WRITE opens occurring for
>>>> image files.
>>>
>>> Note that the FILE_SHARE_WRITE designation doesn't open the file for
>>> writing, it designates how others should be able to access it, but
>>> this seems sensible anyway.
>>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363874(VS.85).aspx
>>> http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2004/05/13/131263.aspx
>>
>> Ahh, even better. I had forgotten what each of the arguments to
>> CreateFile meant.
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>>> 3. When recompiling with VS 2005 i get some errors on execution on
>>>>> some hosts due to wrong versions of the msvc libs. Is there any
>>>>> reason
>>>>> we don't compile these libs in statically by default? given the
>>>>> use of
>>>>> these binaries it seems sensible and it only marginally affects  
>>>>> the
>>>>> size.
>>>>
>>>> Can you compile them in statically? I didn't think you could.
>>>
>>> I figured it should be possible so went looking and found "Use of
>>> MFC" under:
>>> Project Properties -> Configuration Properties -> General -> Use of
>>> MFC
>>> Setting that to "Use MFC in a Static Library" for each sleuthkit
>>> project and recompiling it appears to work perfectly.
>>> Searching after the fact I found:
>>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235264(VS.80).aspx
>>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235316(VS.80).aspx
>>> Which advises against it, but I don't see any of the downsides being
>>> applicable in this instance.
>>> I did this under VC++ Express 2k8, but seems like it should work on
>>> any VS.
>>
>> If there is a large desire to do this, I will consider it more, but
>> if you are building your own executables then you probably should be
>> using the MFC dlls from your compiler and not using the ones that I
>> ship with the pre-built executables (which could be a different
>> version).
>>
>> thanks,
>> brian
>>
>>
>>
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