Re: [Openvpn-devel] Summary of the IRC meeting (26th Aug 2010)

2010-08-29 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > The only thing missing was -lz to satisfy OpenSSL dependencies. > If pkg-config is available in the system then pkg-config openssl --libs > is all that is needed to get the linker flags needed for OpenSSL. > Maybe use PKG_CHECK_MODULES() in con

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Summary of the IRC meeting (26th Aug 2010)

2010-08-28 Thread Peter Stuge
Gert Doering wrote: > > > Did some testing to see if creating a static binary would be > > > trivial. As it was not, > > > > Why wasn't it? Please share details from the testing. > > Naively just calling "gcc -static" led to linker failures due to > OpenSSL not being found. > > This was a "can w

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Summary of the IRC meeting (26th Aug 2010)

2010-08-28 Thread Peter Stuge
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > I am not sure ELF is capable of mixing static/dynamic in same module. > I had this problem in several cases, at the end, dynamic glibc was > used. I'm not sure what the problem would be. I think a static binary should be able to dlopen a .so fine at least if it the .so doesn

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Summary of the IRC meeting (26th Aug 2010)

2010-08-28 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 04:46:17AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > Samuli Seppänen wrote: > > Discussed the "Some way of supporting static compilation" issue: > > > > > > > > Did some testing to see if creating a static binary would be > > trivia

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Summary of the IRC meeting (26th Aug 2010)

2010-08-28 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
I am not sure ELF is capable of mixing static/dynamic in same module. I had this problem in several cases, at the end, dynamic glibc was used. On 8/28/10, Peter Stuge wrote: > Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> > > Did some testing to see if creating a static binary would be >> > > trivial. As it was not, >>

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Summary of the IRC meeting (26th Aug 2010)

2010-08-28 Thread Peter Stuge
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > > Did some testing to see if creating a static binary would be > > > trivial. As it was not, > > > > Why wasn't it? Please share details from the testing. > > I guess the modules, pkcs11 and other components that uses dlopen > should be disabled in openvpn. Well, as a firs

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Summary of the IRC meeting (26th Aug 2010)

2010-08-28 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > > Samuli Seppänen wrote: > > Discussed the "Some way of supporting static compilation" issue: > > > > > > > > Did some testing to see if creating a static binary would be > > trivial. As it was

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Summary of the IRC meeting (26th Aug 2010)

2010-08-28 Thread Peter Stuge
Samuli Seppänen wrote: > Discussed the "Some way of supporting static compilation" issue: > > > > Did some testing to see if creating a static binary would be > trivial. As it was not, Why wasn't it? Please share details from the testing. > dec

[Openvpn-devel] Summary of the IRC meeting (26th Aug 2010)

2010-08-27 Thread Samuli Seppänen
Hi, Here's the summary of the previous community meeting. --- COMMUNITY MEETING Place: #openvpn-devel on irc.freenode.net List-Post: openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thursday, 26th Aug 2010 Time: 18:00 UTC Planned meeting topics for this meeting were on this page: