[X2Go-Dev] schedule release of X2Go Client 4.0.2.0

[Michael DePaulo]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com> wrote:
> .
>> However, after trying lots of things out, I managed to compile VcXsrv
>> 1.14.3 (2013-09-20) with Windows XP support, and with the fixes for
>> CVE-2013-4396 (2013-10-08) & CVE-2013-6462 (2014-01-07).
>>
>> I also determined that VcXsrv 1.14.3 already included the fixes for
>> CVE-2013-1981..2005, CVE-2013-2062..2066 (2013-05-23). Therefore, my
>> bulid contains 0 known vulnerabilities!
>>
>> I am calling my build 1.14.3.1. The build is here:
>> http://code.x2go.org/releases/binary-win32/3rd-party/vcxsrv-modified-by-x2go-project/
>>
>> And for now, the source code is here:
>> https://sourceforge.net/u/mikedep333/vcxsrv/ci/xp-fixesonly/tree/
>>
>> I updated X2Go-WinBuilder VM to use my 1.14.3.1 build. The X2Go Client
>> nightly build with 1.14.3.1 is here:
>> http://code.x2go.org/releases/binary-win32/x2goclient/heuler/mingw32-4.4/qt-4.8/x2goclient-4.0.2.0-2014.04.06-setup.exe
>>
>>
>> Here's more information on my decision to create this VcXsrv build:
>> 1. MSVC 2012 can produce XP compatible builds as long as you are using
>> version "Update 1" or later, and you specify the v110_xp platform
>> toolset. This is what I used for my 1.14.3.1 build.
>> 2. VcXsrv 1.14.2.1 is the last version with XP support because it is
>> the last version built with MSVC 2010. VcXsrv 1.14.3 was built with
>> MSVC 2012 and VcXsrv 1.14.4 was built with MSVC 2013. The VcXsrv
>> project's homepage still states that they are built with MSVC 2012,
>> but the commit messages specify otherwise.
>> 3. Although only the VcXsrv build system / makefiles were updated for
>> MSVC 2013 with VcXsrv 1.14.4, the build system is very large.
>> Therefore, I did not try to modify VcXsrv 1.14.4 for MSVC 2012 &
>> v110_xp compatibility.
>> 4. VcXsrv 1.15's source code is incompatible with MSVC 2012 because it
>> contains certain C99 statements.
>> 5. It looks like VcXsrv normally builds using cmd.exe, rather than
>> cygwin's bash shell. VcXsrv includes cygwin bash shell scripts, but
>> they are outdated. gawk had trouble with the .bat files used during
>> the build of xkeyboard-config, so I switched to using cygwin's bash
>> shell for the build and updated those scripts. Building using cygwin's
>> bash shell was successful, it used .sh files instead for the build of
>> xkeyboard-config.
>>
>> -Mike#2
>
> Hmm, I thought I compiled VcXsrv 1.14.3.1 correctly with the v110_xp platform
> toolset, but when I go to start it on my XP SP3 32-bit VM (instead of
> on my Windows 8.1 64-bit machine), I get the error:
>
> C:\Program Files\x2goclient\VcXsrv\vcxsrv.exe is not a valid Win32 application.
>
> Similarly, x2goclient.exe states:
>
> Can't start X server
> Please check your installation
>
> I will investigate further. It is a 32-bit executable though.
>
> -Mike

I've fixed the build scripts and makefiles so that it is now compatible with XP.

The 3 URLs I specified previously have been updated. The version # is
the same, 1.14.3.1 .