Hi Winston, On 28 Jun 2014, at 01:30, Yang Hong <yang_h...@hotmail.com<mailto:yang_h...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
Hello Folks. I fully support Joseph's suggestion. (1) If an open-source project wants more contribution from software developers in the community, we need a basic guide for compiling the FreeRDP-WebConnect source code successfully. I quite understand the pains from Joseph's friends, because I also had the similar compiling issue of FreeRDP-WebConnect source code provided by cloudbase. While I definitely agree on the necessity for clear building instructions, I invite you read further down in the thread for the reasons why we still haven’t publish them yet. Beside that, we just took over the responsability of mantaining this project. Please be patient as we work hard to solve the small hiccups that can occour when a change of this magnitude happens. (2) We appreciate the fundamental contribution on FreeRDP-WebConnect from cloudbase. However, I can successfully compile the original FreeRDP-WebConnect source code provided by Fritz Elfert under Ubuntu 12.04. I failed to compile the FreeRDP-WebConnect source code provided by cloudbase under Ubuntu 12.04. The project compiles currently perfectly well on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, CentOS 6.5 (RHEL 6.5 is targetted as well, although not directly tested by us) and Windows (VS 2013, tested on Windows Server 2012 R2). I assume that you tried the latest code committed yesterday before submitting this email to the ML, if not, I kindly invite you to do so and come back if you still find issues. At this stage Fritz’s code is 2 years and a gazillion commits older then the current master tip, so make sure that you are updating your build metodology accordingly. ATM all you need to do for building the project is to execute: ./sudo install_prereqs.sh ./setup-all.sh Please note that WebConnect’s build process is now based on CMake (which is consistent with FreeRDP), not autoconf. The actual build scripts might change until we document them. The issues you might have encoutered are related to a significative change in the build process of a dependency (Casablanca) that occurred in the meantime and that we addressed with recent commits. This also leads to a side discussion related to the need for a continuous intergration (CI) testing framework (already in the works), strictly necessary if we want to support a non trivial range of platforms due to the amount of moving parts in the dependencies. Beside that, we need continuous DEB and RPM builds ASAP to avoid the need for everybody to build from source. Volunteers are well accepted! (3) Actually there is another project Guacamole which requires the administration-intensive work. Guacamole can be a good reference for cloudbase's FreeRDP-WebConnect. For example, I helped the Guacamole team to debug an issue as shown in the following link. https://glyptodon.org/jira/browse/GUAC-304 Note that this issue was created on 2013-07-17. I started to test the solutions for this issue on 2014-04-02. Finally the Guacamole team fixed the issue on 2014-04-14. This means that more contribution from the community, more progress on the open-source project. A simple solution for enhancing the efficience of cloudbase, I suggest that cloudbase just provides the basic guide for Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 or (Ubuntu 13.10). Why I recommand Windows 7? because it is the most popular OS under Windows series. Why I recommand Ubuntu? because it is easy to install the dependencies required by FreeRDP-WebConnect. You’re very welcome to help debugging and contributing to this project as well of course. Beside our work as Cloudbase, it’d be great to implement a proper community process contribution around WebConnect in reporting issues and actively communicating with the developers. As an example, I’m logged very often on the FreeRDP IRC channel (alexpilotti). I don’t recall having conversations with you about building issues and providing help in sorting out the causes. If your plan is to help in improving this project, I definitely suggest to start from having a proper communication as it’s way more productive then just complaining. :-) About the priority for supported platforms since you raised the topic, unlike FreeRDP, WebConnect is mostly targetting servers. This means that priority will be given to the most popular server platforms: Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2012 R2, Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 LTS, CentOS / RHEL 6.5 (and soon 7.0) and possibly Suse SLES. This doesn’t mean that the project won’t work on other OSs / distros (e.g. Windows 7 or Fedora), those will just have a lower priority unless the community will agree differently. Thanks, Alessandro Best regards, Winston Hong > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:04:35 +0300 > From: joseph.ben...@gmail.com<mailto:joseph.ben...@gmail.com> > To: apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com<mailto:apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com> > CC: > freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [FreeRDP-devel] Compile on windows issues > > Thanks a lot for the response, > > The Army (5 dev) are developer I meet in some conferences, and mentioned > this issue, they are not working with me or direct friends, just networking > and while talking, we get into FreeRDP, I asked if they know how to compile > WebConnector they said that they tried and give up. (FreeRDP - I succeed > after A LOT of pain, after that pushed step by step instruction document > recently, I verified it is OK after I sent it to a friend asked him try > compile without know anything about freeRDP, and he follow the instructions > and success) > > The 3 other outsourcing I hired was year ago (You can check in > oDeck.com<http://odeck.com/>) > all give up, and I have no idea why they didn't use the IRC, I was busy and > moved to other projects. > > Month ago, I return back to this! , trying to find time to help, > You are doing great job, Well Done! > Joseph > > > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Alessandro Pilotti < > apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com<mailto:apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com>> > wrote: > > > Hi Joseph, > > > > On 27 Jun 2014, at 15:00, Joseph Benraz > > <joseph.ben...@gmail.com<mailto:joseph.ben...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > Hi Alessandro, > > > > Thanks for the response. > > > > I do not understand why there is NO step by step instructions for build > > as in FreeRDP and any other project. > > > > > > The reasons why we still didn’t pusblish the build instructions are: > > > > 1) We just published this code and we had to refactor a few things in the > > build process, so providing instructions just to change them in a few days > > can be misleading > > 2) The Casablanca (one of the dependencies) build process changed lately > > causing build failures (see issue #53 on github for example) and this > > needed to be fixed > > 3) We want to support as many OSs / distros as possible and in the INSTALL > > instructions we need to clearly state where the build works, due to the non > > trivial requirements. > > > > We’re going to add build instructions as soon as the above issues are > > sorted out. > > > > This should be the first part, if you need others to contribute and > > help they should be able AT LEAST to build it. > > > > > > Next time, what about looking on the open issues on github or asking if > > there are blockers? :) > > > > > > I do not need any installation, I want to be able to compile the code to > > be able to debug / change and fix. > > > > > > And you’re very welcome to do so of course. We’re very happy to accept > > contributions and build a solid community around WebConnect. > > It’d be great if you could reach out on IRC or other channels to discuss > > the plans for this project and its open issues. > > > > I already talked with 5 developers (some with 12 years of exp in c/c++ > > , unix and windows), I also toked 3 outsourcing to create an instruction > > for built, *BUT none succeed!* > > > > > > Suprisingly in the root of the project there are currently 2 scripts for > > Linux builds: > > > > sudo ./install_prereqs.sh > > ./setup-all.sh > > > > Now, true that we still have to provide offical istructions (see reason > > above), but those scripts seem quite self explanatory to me, if you want to > > give it a shot instead of waiting for the issues above to be fixed. > > Windows istructions will follow up as well of course. > > > > Note: just tested those scripts on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as we added a new > > batch of commits that fixed the Casablance issue. > > > > For the rest, since FreeRDP has an official IRC channel beside the ML, > > can I ask why you and / or your army of very experienced super-duper devs > > didn’t try to reach out and ask for some pointers? :-) > > > > Thanks, > > > > Alessandro > > > > > > Thanks. > > Joseph > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Alessandro Pilotti < > > apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com<mailto:apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com>> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi Joseph, > >> > >> > >> On 21 Jun 2014, at 22:47, Joseph Benraz > >> <joseph.ben...@gmail.com<mailto:joseph.ben...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I successfully compile FreeRDP, thanks. > >> > I could not find ANY instruction of how to compile web connector :( > >> > >> We’re putting together an INSTALL file for the project, for the meantime > >> let me add some brief instructions here: > >> > >> There are quite a few dependencies involved: > >> > >> ZLib > >> LibPNG > >> OpenSSL > >> FreeRDP > >> PThreads-Win32 > >> EHS (https://github.com/cloudbase/EHS.git) > >> > >> Some notes: > >> > >> The EHS build is now based on CMake: > >> > >> cmake . -DTHREADS_PTHREADS_WIN32_LIBRARY=“..." > >> > >> Same for the FreeRDP-WebConnect build: > >> > >> cmake . -DTHREADS_PTHREADS_WIN32_LIBRARY=“..." -DEHS_ROOT_DIR=“…” > >> > >> This should help as a starting point until the INSTALL file is ready, let > >> me know if it helps! > >> > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Alessandro > >> > >> > >> > > >> > Any link or instructions will be great? > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > Joseph > >> > > >> > > >> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Joseph Benraz < > >> joseph.ben...@gmail.com<mailto:joseph.ben...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> > Hi Alessandro, > >> > I need the FreeRDP libraries (dll), the over night provide EXE client :( > >> > > >> > > >> > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Alessandro Pilotti < > >> apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com<mailto:apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com>> > >> wrote: > >> > Hi Joseph, > >> > > >> > If you want a quick solution, we have continuos builds for FreeRDP on > >> Windows here: > >> > http://www.cloudbase.it/freerdp-for-windows-nightly-builds/ > >> > > >> > The main advantage of this build is that is completely self contained, > >> just run wfreerdp.exe w/o any dependency required. > >> > > >> > If you want to compile it on your own, you should definitely thinking > >> about compiling OpenSSL as well. You should in particular make sure that > >> the VS runtime version is the same for all the components involved in the > >> build (FreeRDP and OpenSSL in this case). > >> > > >> > To compile OpenSSL, they provide very clear instructions in the > >> sources. Please read at least the project READMEs and INSTALLs before > >> posting this type of questions. ;-) > >> > > >> > Once done, set the environment variable requested by CMake: > >> > > >> > set OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=\path\to\your\openssl\dir > >> > > >> > and run cmake for generating the FreeRDP build files. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Alessandro > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On 14 Jun 2014, at 15:06, Joseph Benraz > >> > <joseph.ben...@gmail.com<mailto:joseph.ben...@gmail.com>> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > > Hi, > >> > > > >> > > I'm trying to compile the FreeRDP in my windows OS, when I try to run > >> the > >> > > cmaker: > >> > > "C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" -DMONOLITHIC_BUILD=ON > >> > > I get the following Error: > >> > > > >> > > CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake/share/cmake-3.0/Modules/ > >> > > FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:136 (message): > >> > > Could NOT find OpenSSL, try to set the path to OpenSSL root folder > >> in the > >> > > system variable OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR (missing: OPENSSL_LIBRARIES > >> > > OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR) > >> > > > >> > > How to solve this? , I downloaded the OpenSSL, but I have no idea > >> what to > >> > > do with it!!! (what code i need, what bin and where to put!!!! > >> > > > >> > > Where I can FIND clear and full instruction of HOW TO BUILD FreeRDP in > >> > > windows? , I see millions of questions about this issue, all have the > >> same > >> > > issue, no one can compile in Windows. > >> > > > >> > > Best, > >> > > Joseph > >> > > > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > > HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk > >> Solutions > >> > > Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems > >> > > Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. 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