I just wanted to put in my "me too" for the precompiled binaries --
especially for Windows.

Is there any sort of timeframe of release for windows?

Rich Megginson wrote:
> François Beretti wrote:
>> Rich Megginson a écrit :
>>
>>> We're working on it.  We plan to have the following platforms:
>>> Linux 2.4 32bit
>>> Linux 2.6 32bit
>>> Linux 2.6 64bit
>>> HP-UX 11.11 32bit
>>> HP-UX 11.11 64bit
>>> Solaris 9 32bit
>>> Solaris 9 64bit
>>> Windows 32bit
>>
>>
>> Very cool !
>>
>> Does this include .h and .lib files, to build apps against it ?
> 
> Yes.  It will be the full SDK, including those and the command line
> tools such as ldapsearch, etc.
> 
> You will require nspr 4.6.1 and nss 3.11 to build and at runtime.  Older
> versions of nspr and nss may work, but I suggest at least 4.4.1 or later
> of nspr and 3.9.3 or later of nss.
> 
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/nspr/releases/v4.6.1/
> and
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_11_RTM
> 
>>
>>>
>>> Optimized only - would anyone like debug packages as well?  Are there
>>> any other platforms that folks would like?  Note that these are the
>>> only build machines I have.  I would definitely be willing to work
>>> with someone who had another platform, to build it and push it to
>>> ftp.mozilla.
>>
>>
>> I would be glad to help debugging Win32 and Linux packages. In fact I
>> even need a Win32 package at my work, for a proof of concept of the
>> smart card authentication.
> 
> Ok.  I'll put the debug packages for all platforms.  I note that mozilla
> does this for nspr and nss also.
> 
>>
>> For the platforms, the machines I have are included in your list. But
>> if I buy a 64bit PC I will be glad to help :-)
>>
>> I never tried this SDK before, because it needed to be built. Instead
>> I have used the Novell, Microsoft (I don't use it anymore) and IBM
>> (just for IBM Directory Server) SDKs in my software. But you seem to
>> be the best one :
>> - IBM, SUN SDKs are not free of charges
> But the Sun SDK is now open source, n'est pas?
>> - OpenLDAP is not offically supported on Win32
> Really?  How about the cygwin bundle?
>> - Microsoft has compatibility problems (no comment)
>> - Novell has no smart card support, expected their "NMAS" proprietary
>> SASL mechanism, which only work with Novell eDirectory server
>>
>>
>> François
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