[X2Go-User] Progress, Re: Building x2goclient on windows from source?

On 05/13/2012 07:06 PM, Maarten Boekhold wrote:

I'm trying to figure out how to build the x2goclient from source on Windows from source.

Hi all,

I've made some progress on my own. I can compile the x2goclient, and it runs from *inside* the msys-bash shell. With a little bit of trickery (symlink to the X-Server directory inside the release dir) I can now run my resulting x2goclient.exe binary.

However, I can't get it to link statically to all libraries, the way that the official binary distribution seems to do.

See below for the steps I used to get this far. Anybody would could provide the final step of getting the linking right?

Maarten

Download MingW installer from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst/ get the latest mingw-get-inst-*.exe file Run the installer, install in C:\sw\MinGW after installation, run C:\sw\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat (or open the shortcuts in your start menu/desktop if you installed any)

 cd /c/sw/MinGW/msys/1.0/postinstall
 sh ./pi.sh

Create c:\home On My Computer->Properties->Advanced->Environment Variables, set HOME=c:\home

Create C:\home\.profile

 PATH=$PATH:/c/sw/Qt/4.8.1/bin
 export PATH

Download QT from: http://releases.qt-project.org/qt4/source/qt-win-opensource-4.8.1-mingw.exe install in c:\sw\Qt Make sure to point to the MinGW installation used above.

Download libssh from: http://winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/repository-4.8/win32libs/libssh-x86-mi... http://winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/repository-4.8/win32libs/libssh-x86-mi...

(libssh seems to be very hard to compile on mingw. Its build-system is based on CMake, which I don't think is available on mingw. The KDE people have done the hard work however, so we use their results)

cd /usr/local tar zxf .../path/to/libssh-x86-mingw4-0.5.2-1-bin.tar.bz2 tar zxf .../path/to/libssh-x86-mingw4-0.5.2-1-lib.tar.bz2

Build a custom version of openssl ("mingw-get install msys-openssl" doesn't seem to install a compatible version, as static linking doesn't work with that one).

Download OpenSSL from: http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz

cd ~ tar zxf /path/to/openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz cd openssl-1.0.1c ./configure mingw --prefix=/usr/local make make install (make install takes a long time, it installs like 10K man pages, somebody could probably find out how to install this without man pages in order to speed this up)

Download x2goclient source code from: http://code.x2go.org/releases/source/x2goclient/x2goclient_3.99.2.0.tar.gz

cd ~ tar zxf /path/to/x2goclient_3.99.2.0.tar.gz cd x2goclient_3.99.2.0 Edit x2goclient.pro file Replace the part that says:

 win32-* {
    message(building $$TARGET for windows without ldap and cups)
    LIBS += -lwinspool -lws2_32
    CONFIG += static release
 }

with:

 win32-* {
     message(building $$TARGET for windows without ldap and cups)
     INCLUDEPATH += /usr/local/include
     LIBPATH += /usr/local/lib
     LIBS += -lssl -lcrypto -lwinspool -lws2_32
     CONFIG += static release
 }

make build_client