On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Alon Bar-Lev <alon.bar...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Athanasios Douitsis > <aduit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For starters, in generic/ you may want to add a -L in the CURLOPTS to > make > > it follow the 302's from github. > > > > I'll continue in the following days and let you know how it goes. > > > > Thanks. > But please try to use wget... it may solve the issue. > After adding -L, curl worked flawlessly as well. I'll be sure to try wget next time. > > > > > > > BTW, to do the MSVC build I installed Strawberry Perl, which I think is > the > > best option when one wants Perl on windows. Now that I think of it, one > > should theoretically be able to compile openvpn and its dependencies with > > Strawberry Perl alone as the only necessary prerequisite, since tools > such > > as mingw and dmake are included in the strawberry package (they are used > to > > compile Perl XS modules, etc). > > mingw is properly maintained at cygwin, there is no need to create > more dependency. > The cygwin environment provides a complete cross compile environment > similar to Linux. > > Alon. > I was just thinking loudly, definitely not asking for someone to write it and replace the existing build process(es). Having said that, I'd like to clarify that what I meant is this would not be an additional dependency on top of others, since neither cygwin nor msvc would be needed anymore. Anyway, not important, just a thought. -- Athanasios Douitsis
