samba - May 2016 - Compile Samba for Windows Use - SMBClient.exe mainly

When I saw this thread the other day I had to try myself just to see what
would happen. I installed cygwin with all the build tools I'd think I
needed gcc g++ make autoconfig.

I ran "./configure --without-ad-dc" as it complained when I left out
that
argument.
the first couple times configure complained about xxx missing and I
installed xxx then
configure just aborted after running a while without listing what was
missing.
It just said error

I was going to look what packages where recommended to compile samba but
couldn't find a good page myself.

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 18:28 +0000, Allan P. Dynes wrote:
> > Unfortunately that’s not going to be an option.
>
> I'm not sure there are many good options then.
>
> > I'm using a cloud sharing software package called Pydio and it was
> > originally written for *nix platforms.  I got it running amazingly
> > well on a 2012 R2 server with IIS 8.5 but there is no built in way to
> > access another server share from the platform other than FTP over SSH
> > or Samba.  Again it was written for *nix so those options make sense.
> >   However I'm on Server 2012 trying to access another Server 2012.
>
> I'm of course assuming you can't just use the system redirector for
> some reason?
>
> > From reading more about this the WAF build system was implemented for
> > a 4.* series of Samba.  Since others I linked to have compiled
> > different version of 3.* it stands to reason I can possible compile
> > 3.6.25 on Windows?  Should my question be targeted more twords a
> > Cygwin newsgroup/forum then the Samba group or would someone have
> > experience with building Samba on Windows have any ideas.  Again I
> > only need the client, I really don't need to build all of Samba.
>
> You are asking in the right place, or samba-technical, but this is
> essentially uncharted territory.
>
> I don't know if it would help, but so as not to just leave you at a
> dead end, perhaps you might get more luck with jcifs? (but you would
> have to build the smbclient replacement)
>
> BTW, out of total curiosity, what happens when you do try and run our
> build system on Windows, or on cygwin?
>
> (try running the buildtools/bin/waf directly if the make wrapper is in
> the way).
>
> Andrew Bartlett
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On Sat, 2016-05-14 at 16:03 -0600, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> When I saw this thread the other day I had to try myself just to see
> what would happen. I installed cygwin with all the build tools I'd
> think I needed gcc g++ make autoconfig.
> 
> I ran "./configure --without-ad-dc" as it complained when I left
out
> that argument.
> the first couple times configure complained about xxx missing and I
> installed xxx then
> configure just aborted after running a while without listing what was
> missing.
> It just said error
> 
> I was going to look what packages where recommended to compile samba
> but couldn't find a good page myself.
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Operating_system_requirements/Dependen
cies_-_Libraries_and_programs
-- 
Andrew Bartlett                       http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team  http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba

The couple people that did successfully compile it it seems were on Windows XP.
I'm going to start up a 32-bit XP machine virtual machine and install only
cygwin and what I believe are the dependencies and see how far I can get.  
I'm currently out of town so I'll try it either later in the week or
next week.



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-------- Original message --------
From: Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadowski at gmail.com>
Date: 5/16/16 10:52 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
Cc: "Allan P. Dynes" <ADynes at WHGardiner.com>, samba at
lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Compile Samba for Windows Use - SMBClient.exe mainly


On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at
samba.org<mailto:abartlet at samba.org>> wrote:
On Sat, 2016-05-14 at 16:03 -0600, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> When I saw this thread the other day I had to try myself just to see
> what would happen. I installed cygwin with all the build tools I'd
> think I needed gcc g++ make autoconfig.
>
> I ran "./configure --without-ad-dc" as it complained when I left
out
> that argument.
> the first couple times configure complained about xxx missing and I
> installed xxx then
> configure just aborted after running a while without listing what was
> missing.
> It just said error
>
> I was going to look what packages where recommended to compile samba
> but couldn't find a good page myself.
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Operating_system_requirements/Dependen
cies_-_Libraries_and_programs

I have most of that installed accept the obvious
Can't install acl, xattr, pam, cups

blkid: I have libblkid1 and libblkid-devel installed
I could not find bsd or setproctitle

I tryed configure as follows
./configure --without-ad-dc --without-pam > configure-2016-05-16.log
2>&1

and attached the configure-2016-05-16.log file nothing really jumps out at me
why it is failing.

Checking for openpty                                                            
: ok
Checking for header linux/sockios.h                                             
: no
Checking for header linux/ethtool.h                                             
: no
Checking linker accepts -Wl,-no-undefined                                       
: yes
Checking linker accepts ['-undefined', 'dynamic_lookup']        
: no
Checking linker accepts -Wl,--as-needed                                         
: yes
Checking for -lc not needed                                                     
: ok
Checking configure summary                                                      
: not found
configure summary failed

Or is that how it is suppose to end?


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Authentication Developer, Samba Team  http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 03:20:26PM +0000, Allan P. Dynes
wrote:
> The couple people that did successfully compile it it seems were on Windows
XP. I'm going to start up a 32-bit XP machine virtual machine and install
only cygwin and what I believe are the dependencies and see how far I can get.  
I'm currently out of town so I'll try it either later in the week or
next week.
As Windows provides binary compatibility you
might just be able to get a 32-bit WindowsXP
binary to run on the Windows server you're
targetting.