Building under Windows

[doosterkamp]

Hi Fritz ...

First: Love the work you're doing on the webclient!

Then my question:
Can you please post a small manual on how to compile this code under Windows? (and what the prerequisites for this is)

[felfert]

Sorry, but I never have tried that. At least, you would need a full MinGW/MSYS development system installed on Windows.
Before you can even start, you first need to build the latest FreeRDP libs (from GIT) as well as EHS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ehs/). After that you can try.
However:
Neither EHS nor wsgate are currently prepared to be build in a native MinGW environment (only cross-build).
If you are an experienced developer with knowledge of autotools you might be able to adapt the configure.ac of both packages.

My advice:
Get Fedora Linux, install it in VirtualBox, then in that VM: install Fedora's standard mingw32 packages, plus my mingw32 packages of EHS and FreeRDP and you are set to go. Building wsgate is then just a matter of 3 steps after git checkout:

make -f Makefile.am
mingw32-configure --with-dllpath=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin
make dist-platform

[doosterkamp]

Hi Fritz ..

Thanx for your answer ...

I stated my question wrong. I ment to ask how to compile for Windows.
So if the above is all to it, then that will do.

Thanks

PS. If I have some change suggestions or additions for your code, do I post them here? I want to use the webconnect in a personal project, but for that I want to make it also suitable for the Android tabs and the iPad ...

[Shumen]

How could I generate the install wizard, namely the Setup.exe installer?
I compiled but no idea where to put those files. Thanks.

[felfert]

make dist-platform

[Shumen]

Hi Fritz, what did you do to compile FreeRDP successfully with mingw32?
FreeRDP won't be compiled with mingw32, mingw64 is OK.

Thank you very much.

[felfert]

If it built ok for you with mingw64, it should build for mingw32 as well. For me, neither mingw64 nor mingw32 were ok (cross-build on Fedora 16) and I simply fixed all issues. I also sent Marc a patch a while ago, but he was too busy at the time. Due to the massive changes regarding winpr, that patch is now obsolete. We agreed, that I will commit the changes next week, when winpr is settling down. After that - FreeRDP should cross-build for mingw32 and -64 out of the box.