[X2Go-Dev] building X2Go Client for MS Windows

[Oleksandr Shneyder]

Hi,

you don't need to have cygwin to build x2goclient for windows. All you
need for building x2goclient is Qt+MinGW and libssh. Building of
Qt-Applications on Windows is just the same as for every OS -
qmake&&make. For x2go client - config_win.bat && make. It is as easy as
piece of cake. It is enough if someone want to modify X2Go Client and
build it for Windows. All other components - X, pulse, nxproxy, sshd can
be easily copied from X2Go Client installer. I see no reason why some
one should want to make any changes in this components and why it should
be a part of X2Go documentation.
Cygwin is used for compiling nxproxy and for sshd. Yes, I know, there is
a newer version of Cygwin as legacy version used with x2goclient at that
time. I have tried it, and there are many changes regarding registry and
directory structure in it. It is not possible without spending a lot of
work to use it with x2goclient. And I'm not ready to do this work for
free. Every one who want to do that is welcome.

regards
Alex

Am 13.03.2013 09:41, schrieb Mike Gabriel:
> Hi Michael, hi Alex,
> 
> On Mi 13 Mär 2013 07:59:42 CET Michael Kromer wrote:
> 
>>> recently some of you have (successfully) attempted to build X2Go
>>> Client from source on MS Windows systems.
>>>
>>> As you probably know, the reserved page on the wiki is yawningly empty:
>>> http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:development:build-howto-mswin:x2goclient
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you win32-building-successfully guys take over that task of
>>> filling the above given wiki page?
>>
>> I totally agree and ask for help here, and btw: I really think we need
>> to rework/update things. I really don't think its a good idea to ship
>> <OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007> with the most recent
>> version. There are just way to outdated components involved
>> (especially everything which relates to cygwin). This asks for
>> trouble. Since cygwin provides newer packages
>> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=openssh I think there
>> are options. We would even sponsor the open step-by-step documentation
>> to some extent. Just contact me for details.
> 
> That is good news and would be a great contribution to the transparency
> of the project. I will allow people to easily build customized versions
> of X2Go Client suitable for company deployment.
> 
> @Alex: will you get in contact with Michael? Otherwise, I would take
> over and teach myself how to build x2goclient and write that down in our
> wiki.
> 
> Greets,
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Oleksandr Shneyder
Dipl. Informatik
X2go Core Developer Team

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