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

[Maarten Boekhold]

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-mingw4-0.5.2-1-bin.tar.bz2
http://winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/repository-4.8/win32libs/libssh-x86-mingw4-0.5.2-1-lib.tar.bz2

(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