Re: squid on windows

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> On 25/05/2012 11:11 a.m., Alex Rousskov wrote:
>>
>> On 05/23/2012 10:20 PM, kshitij wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>    I need some help to run squid-3.0 or squid -3.1 on windows platform.
>>>
>>> I already tried the squid-2.7 binary at
>>> http://squid.acmeconsulting.it/download/squid-2.7.STABLE8-bin.zip
>>> The squid-2.7 binary works great.
>>>
>>> Now I want to move further and need to  implement some icap
>>> transformations.  I understand that there is no stable binary
>>> available for squid3.0+ windows port.
>>> Would like to get some pointers on how to proceed such that a
>>> squid-3.0+ windows can be created
>>> Q1. Which branch of squid would be a good starting point for
>>> compilation on windows.
>>
>> I am not a Windows expert so I hope others who recently worked on the
>> Windows port will chime in, but if you get no responses, start with v3.1
>> or later because v3.0 is no longer supported.
>
>
> We have quite a lot of (very slow) progress on 3.2 for Windows, to the point
> of compiling now with certain configure options (can't recall off the top of
> my head what they are though sorry). The results are being ported to 3.1
> when its clear how to port properly, but in general 3.1 is not expected to
> run on Windows without a *lot* more work. There is still hope for 3.2 of
> someone with coding skills and interest in Windows has time to donate for
> it.

Squid 3.2 now could build on MinGW (not trunk, it's a hacky
feature-branch I've developed) with default configure options.
No idea on whether it actually works. Unit-tests are not built due to
strange linking issue.

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    /kinkie