tinc devel - Sep 2015 - Cross-compiling tinc 1.1 for Windows

Hi Guus,
>Yes, getting ncurses to work on Windows can be tricky.
I managed to cross-compile readline and termcap, and was able to link tinc
against that.
Thank you for your help!

I also added "--prefix="C:/Program\ Files/tinc/", but that does
not quite do the trick, I get error messages like:

~/tinc>tinc.exe top
Could not open pid file C:/Program Files/tinc/etc\tinc\pid: No such file or
directory

When specifying the correct config dir by passing "-c <PATH>",
everything works as expected, though.

I noticed your pre-built binaries just output "C:/Program
Files/tinc/pid" in this case.
To get in sync with your binaries, could you share your entire
"./configure" commandline?


Regards,

Daniel

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:20:13PM +0200, Martin_Kaufman at web.de wrote:
> >Yes, getting ncurses to work on Windows can be tricky.
> 
> I managed to cross-compile readline and termcap, and was able to link tinc
against that.
> Thank you for your help!
> 
> I also added "--prefix="C:/Program\ Files/tinc/", but that
does not quite do the trick, I get error messages like:
> 
> ~/tinc>tinc.exe top
> Could not open pid file C:/Program Files/tinc/etc\tinc\pid: No such file or
directory
> 
> When specifying the correct config dir by passing "-c
<PATH>", everything works as expected, though.
Ah, you should run ./configure it with:

--sysconfdir='C:/Program\ Files' --localstatedir='C:/Program\
Files/tinc' --prefix='C:/Program\ Files/tinc'

However, if you use the tinc installer, it will set the registry entry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\tinc to the string "C:\Program
Files\tinc",
and then the tinc binaries will pick that up and use that regardless of
what default paths you specified using the configure script. You can
also set that registry entry by hand using regedit.exe.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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I've managed to compile tinc with ncurses for the top command using script.
https://github.com/lancethepants/tinc-Windows/blob/master/tinc.sh

I haven't had any success making a working tinc.exe with readline 
included.  It appears to compile fine, but when I run 'tinc -n vpn' it 
display the shell prompt, then immediately kicks out of the shell back 
to the terminal. I'd be interested in seeing how you compiled readline.

The official binaries from what I can tell don't have readline. At least 
when I hit TAB for autocomplete it doesn't work. Don't know if it's 
expected to work in Windows cmd shell  though.