Re: squid on windows

On 28.05.2012 04:36, Kinkie wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Amos Jeffries 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.

Sweet. Being a bit bored right now I've ported some more of the changes
over to HEAD and re-synced the trees.

Kinkie; You will need to use "bzr pull" to retrieve the new tip for
mswin.

We still have issues with the helper check.test scripts detecting
windows.h system file properly.

Amos
Received on Mon May 28 2012 - 02:11:33 MDT