samba - Oct 2025 - Tranquil It has released a new tool

I found that the Github README has a little on it, not much but a little:

https://github.com/tranquilit/OpenRSAT

Also FreePascal + Lazarus is an interesting choice for a technology 
stack but why not I suppose. Memories of Delphi.

On 24/10/2025 6:53 am, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> I came across this purely by accident:
>
> https://www.tranquil.it/en/openrsat/
>
>  From first appearance it looks interesting, but I will struggle to test
> it, there are no Linux arm64 packages and the build instructions are
> very brief to non existent.
>
> So, Tranquil IT, if you want people like myself to test it, tell us how
> to build it.
>
> Rowland
>

On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:08:40 +1300
Rob van der Linde via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> I found that the Github README has a little on it, not much but a
> little:
> 
> https://github.com/tranquilit/OpenRSAT
> 
> Also FreePascal + Lazarus is an interesting choice for a technology 
> stack but why not I suppose. Memories of Delphi.
> 
>
I read the github page and the ones it links to, but I am really no
wiser.

On its github page there is this:

Build from source
We'll provide a step by step explaination to build the product. It
requires FPC (FreePascalCompiler) and Lazarus. You can easly install
fpc and lazarus from fpcupdeluxe.

Which I think means that instead of building fcp and lazarus, I can use
apt on Debian Trixie to install them:

sudo apt install fcp lazarus

However, are the Debian packages new enough ?
If not, then instructions on how to build them are required. Which may
be tricky, because, as far as I can see, there are a couple of
dependencies not available on Trixie.

Also having got the dependencies, how do I use the files found on the
Tranquil IT github page ? I take it that somehow you use them to build
Openrsat, but how ? I have never built anything using pascal.

Rowland

Hi Rob,
> I found that the Github README has a little on it, not much but a little:
>
> https://github.com/tranquilit/OpenRSAT
>
> Also FreePascal + Lazarus is an interesting choice for a technology 
> stack but why not I suppose. Memories of Delphi.
actually to build native application with cross-platform support, 
Lazarus/FPC is a very natural solution. It is indeed not as shiny as the 
more young languages and development environments, but it is none the 
less much more efficient for native app building, both in term of dev 
time, and cpu / ram consumption at runtime. It allows you to build 
graphical interface with native look and feel, and the builds can be 
very self contained which make it very easy for distribution.

Lazarus/FPC is a very natural choice for us as it is also the basis for 
the graphical interface in Wapt, Tranquil IT's software deployment 
solution [1]. We support Linux i686/amd64/armhf/arm64 and Windows 7 to 
2025 32bit/64bit and macOS for the last 5 version on Intel and arm64 
arch. So yes it is very cross platform.

For network protocols support we are using the opensource mORMot2 
framework [2], which is definitely not the faint of heart to start with, 
but which is immensely efficient and versatile. Tranquil IT has Arnaud, 
the main mORMot2 dev on the payroll, so we can implement all the quirks 
of MS protocols to have a top notch Active Directory support in Wapt, 
and now OpenRSAT :-)

Cheers,

Denis

[1] https://www.wapt.fr/en/doc/index.html

[2] https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2

>
> On 24/10/2025 6:53 am, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>> I came across this purely by accident:
>>
>> https://www.tranquil.it/en/openrsat/
>>
>> ?From first appearance it looks interesting, but I will struggle to
test
>> it, there are no Linux arm64 packages and the build instructions are
>> very brief to non existent.
>>
>> So, Tranquil IT, if you want people like myself to test it, tell us how
>> to build it.
>>
>> Rowland
>>
>