Re: Environment to build a squid helper

Unfortunately there is only Guido woring on his sparetime (the little he
have) on the Windows port of Squid, which means there is very limited
support for Visual Studio. For some reason using later versions does not
work out well and is why Squid is still using that old and now
end-of-life compiler version. It is unclear to me if that's due to Squid
or oddness of Visual Studio triggered by Squid..

But it should build just fine in MinGW+MSYS. Instructions there should
be the same as for UNIX.

1. Install MinGW + MSYS and the other required tools (perl, awk, maybe
more.. you'll notice whats missing when trying the next step).

2. Start a MSYS shell and do the rest from there

   tar jxf squid-xxx.tar.bz2
   cd squid-xxx
   ./configure ... [with the configure flags you need]
   make

[stop here if you just want one of the helpers.. copy it manually in
such case]

   make install

Regards
Henrik

On tis, 2008-08-05 at 10:09 +0100, hurricane81_at_virgilio.it wrote:
> Dear Squid Dev,
>
> I got stuck over a modify of a Squid´s helper.The
> installation of squid in windows environment to "protect" a server is a
> project I´m bringing up for my final exam at university in
> collaboration with a company.
> My aim is to modify mswin_check_ad_group.
> c for making request to the DC only of a specified domain and, from
> the code, create an executable to substitute the "old" helper in
> squidNT to let it run in my windows network environment.
> I already
> tried many solutions, with some advices from Guido Serassio said me I
> should be more patient (but unfortunately the time is against me) and I
> should use visual studio 6 to get the autogeneration of an header I
> miss (default_config_file.h). Just the visual studio 6 is no more
> avialble like the 2008 I´m using now.
> I tried with MinGW and MSYS but I
> cannot manage to go through and have an output .exe of the helper.
> I
> choosed Squid for his flexibility, cause works great as "application"
> proxy and, above all, cause is opensource and I thought I could manage
> to change the code but now I got stuck with the modify of the helper I
> have to implement for our needs.
> Are only two lines of code to change,
> but to bring up the environment and to procede with the changes is
> getting quite complicated and I´m a bit lost.
> If you could be so kind
> to help me and give me some instructions for my procedure I would be
> really thanksful.
> Please respond to my e-mail.
> Looking forward for an
> answer,
> Best Regards
> Antonio