Re: Cannot compile Squid3 fake_auth on Windows

Guido Serassio wrote:
> Hi Amos,
>
> At 06.03 10/07/2008, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> Guido Serassio wrote:
>> > HI Amos,
>> >
>> > I'm trying to maintain up-to-date the Windows support even if it
>> doesn't
>> > run, so I have found a little build problem.
>>
>> On that train of thought...
>>
>> You have mentioned, bzr (still waiting) and IPC weirdness.
>>
>> --> We recently found a major bug in the configure code which prevented
>> the IPv6 --with-* options working. Since windows depends heavily on
>> those, I think that may be a reason why 3-HEAD was failing to run
>> earlier.
>>
>> Anything else fully blocking?
>
> The situation is very bad:
>
> On Windows Squid3 STABLE crashes after few requests, or, without
> requests, during shutdown. I'm not sure about the reason of that, while
> I'm still not able to debug the code because I cannot understand it at all.
>
> May be a problem related to the new run-time (Squid3 uses MSVCRT8, while
> Squid 2 is still using the old MSVCRT), or may be an
> incomplete/incorrect C++ translation of the Windows specific code, or
> may be a very little stupid thing. But without a true Windows C++
> developer the answer cannot be found.
>
> For the same reason, I have never tried to run Squid3 HEAD on Windows
> after IPV6 merge, there are still too much "excitements" in the STABLE
> code .... :-(
>
> Regards
>
> Guido
>

Ouch, Thanks for the clarification. I've had a mind to grab MSVC* dip
into it beside you. I'll let you know if I can get my hands on a copy
newer than visual studio 6.

Amos

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