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Tested on Windows 7.

These instructions are derived from these links:

Download and install depot_tools

  1. Install MS Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable

  2. Install MS Visual Studio Express 2013 for Desktop

  3. Download depot_tools for windows

  4. Right-click on depot_tools.zip and click on extract all.

  5. Add depot_tools folder to your environmental variables PATH

    set PATH=%PATH%;<path-to-depot_tools-directory>\depot_tools

  6. Open a cmd shell and run gclient which will automatically install other dependencies. You need to run gclient command twice and do not worry about errors that you see.

    set PATH=%PATH%;<path-to-depot_tools-directory>\depot_tools
gclient --version
gclient --version
git config --global core.autocrlf false
git config --global core.filemode false
git config --global branch.autosetuprebase always

Download source code

  1. Open a windows cmd shell and create libjingle folder

    mkdir libjingle
cd libjingle

  2. Set necessary environmental variables

    set DEPOT_TOOLS_WIN_TOOLCHAIN=0
set GYP_GENERATORS=ninja
set GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2013e
# for Visual Studio Pro set GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2013

  3. Configure gclient to download libjingle code

    gclient config --name=trunk http://webrtc.googlecode.com/svn/branches/3.52

  4. Download libjingle and dependencies (this may take a while). Running this command twice ensures you have all dependencies (I think)

    gclient sync --force
gclient sync --force

  5. Download ipop-tincan from github.com/ipop-project

    cd trunk\talk
mkdir ipop-project
cd ipop-project
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ipop-project/ipop-tap.git
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ipop-project/ipop-tincan.git

  6. Return to libjingle trunk directory

    cd ..\..

  7. Copy modified gyp files to trunk/talk directory

    del all.gyp talk\libjingle.gyp
copy talk\ipop-project\ipop-tincan\build\ipop-tincan.gyp talk\
copy talk\ipop-project\ipop-tincan\build\libjingle.gyp talk\
copy talk\ipop-project\ipop-tincan\build\all.gyp .

Get additional dependencies

  1. Download and extract pthreads-win32 and move the Pre-built.2 folder into the third party directory

    move Pre-built.2\ <path-to-libjingle>\trunk\third_party\pthreads_win32

  2. Download the IPOP-tap Win32 dll and extract it to ipop-dll and move the contents of to bin folder under ipop-tap directory

    mkdir <path-to-libjingle>\trunk\talk\ipop-project\ipop-tap\bin
move ipop-dll\ipoptap.dll <path-to-libjingle>\trunk\talk\ipop-project\ipop-tap\bin
move ipop-dll\ipoptap.def <path-to-libjingle>\trunk\talk\ipop-project\ipop-tap\bin

  3. (Optional) If you would like to build your own IPOP-Tap dll, you have to cross-compile IPOP-Tap for Windows on Ubuntu (or Debian) using mingw with the following command from Ubuntu shell. You do not need to perform this step if you decide to use the prebuilt DLL from step two. By running the commands below, make win32_dll will create a bin folder, you need to copy the bin folder to the ipop-tap directory to your Windows machine and place it under the <path-to-libjingle>\trunk\talk\ipop-project\ipop-tap\bin directory.

    # perform these commands on an Ubuntu or Debian machine

sudo apt-get install gcc-mingw-w64-i686 unzip
wget ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/pthreads-w32-2-9-1-release.zip
unzip pthreads-w32-2-9-1-release.zip
cp Pre-built.2/include/* /usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.8/include
cp Pre-built.2/lib/x86/* /usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.8/
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ipop-project/ipop-tap.git
cd ipop-tap
make win32_dll

  4. Navigate to the IPOP-Tap bin folder and run lib tool which will create ipoptab.lib for Visual C++ to use

    cd <path-to-libjingle>\trunk\talk\ipop-project\ipop-tap\bin
"c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\bin\lib.exe" /def:ipoptap.def

Building the code

  1. Update <path-to-libjingle>\trunk\build\common.gypi file to disable warning as error for the following warnings numbers: 4067, 4996. You need to open the file in your editor and search for msvs_disabled_warnings. It should look like the following

    # line 2558
'msvs_disabled_warnings': [4800,4996,4067],

# line 2576
        'msvs_disabled_warnings': [
          4251, 4996, 4067  # class 'std::xx' needs to have dll-interface.
        ],


# line 2626
        'msvs_disabled_warnings': [
          4251, 4996, 4067  # class 'std::xx' needs to have dll-interface.
        ],


# line 4580
    'msvs_disabled_warnings': [4351, 4355, 4396, 4503, 4819,
      # TODO(maruel): These warnings are level 4. They will be slowly
      # removed as code is fixed.
      4100, 4121, 4125, 4127, 4130, 4131, 4189, 4201, 4238, 4244, 4245,
      4310, 4428, 4481, 4505, 4510, 4512, 4530, 4610, 4611, 4701, 4702,
      4706, 4996, 4067
    ],

  2. Generate Visual Studio solution files

    gclient runhooks --force

  3. Open cmd and go back to libjingle trunk directory and compile with ninja

    cd <path-to-libjingle>\trunk
ninja -C out/Release ipop-tincan

  4. In order to run ipop-tincan.exe, you need to make sure to copy the following files to the same directory as ipop-tincan.exe

    • ipop-tincan.exe located under `\trunk\out\Release
    • ipoptap.dll located in <path-to-libjingle>\trunk\talk\ipop-project\ipop-tap\bin
    • pthreadGC2.dll and pthreadVC2.dll located in <path-to-libjingle>\trunk\third_party\pthreads_win32\bin

Building IPOP Service

Building the code is a fairly straightforward process. At this time, it requires Git and MS Visual Studio 2013. The solution and project files are included alongside the source files.

  1. Clone the project to your local filesystem.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ipop-project/ipop-service.git
  1. Open the IPoPSvc.sln file in Visual Studio 2013.
  2. Select your build preference [Debug|Release].
  3. Choose Build Solution from the Build menu. The executable will be created in appropriate [Debug|Release] subfolder.
  4. Enjoy!

Download controllers

  1. Download SocialVPN and GroupVPN controllers from controllers repo
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