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 _______________________________________________ dev-tech-ldap mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-ldap
