Generic build for windows about openvpn-build HOT 9 CLOSED

Actually the patches were not installed. This is how i installed mingw-w64 after building it from source (following this link https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/PatchingDebs#no1)

I first installed mingw-w64 using apt-get. Then i followed instructions on the link above to build using apt-src, got some deb files which i've installed using :

dpkg -i *.deb

If i didn't install mingw-w64 using apt-get first i would get dependencies issues... "mingw-w64 depends on gcc-mingw-w64 but it is not going to be installed"

So since my patches aren't installed, what am i doing wrong ?

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thank you for reporting that.
wiki is good for openvpn-2.3, which recently was replaced by openvpn-2.4

openvpn-2.4 required several Windows Vista capabilities, so, the most simple would be to switch to ubuntu-16.04

we should update wiki :-)

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Switching to Ubuntu 16.04 would solve this issue?

What i ended up doing is patch the files directly in /usr/share/mingw-w64/include/

Got it to compile. But does that mean i'll have issues with Vista if i use these generated executables ?

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we build (for testing purpose, release builds are not currently on travis) openvpn-build on travis-ci:

https://travis-ci.org/OpenVPN/openvpn-build

actually, there's ubuntu-12.04 + xenial repo, it is ok for travis, as vm is destroyed every time.
I'm not sure whether you should do such a trick in production environment.

travis-ci script might be used as "wiki alternative": https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build/blob/master/.travis.yml

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as long as you stay with stable, it should be ok (actually, "master" branch is also good)

note, there are couple of wrappers

https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build/blob/master/windows-nsis/build-snapshot
https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build/blob/master/windows-nsis/build-complete

and pay attention to the branch you actually building
since you've compiled it, it should work, windows test suite is not very capable, but there's something if you want to test your binaries:

https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-windows-test

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Also, since my goal is to make a Qt GUI Application that uses openvpn to connect, i didn't see source files using this generic build system, how do i go about this if i want to see the sources to modify them and build again?

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if I understand you right, you are talking about using openvpn-build with patched openvpn ?
if so, you can try to play with parameters: https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build/blob/master/generic/build.vars

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@Herz3h : there is no need to patch NSIS. We have an apt repository for Ubuntu 14.04 which contains patched NSIS packages. That repo gets enabled automatically when you run the automatic build computer setup script:

• https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/attachment/wiki/SettingUpGenericBuildsystem/setup-generic-buildsystem.5.sh

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@mattock i've had problems with that script, can't remember what was the error. I ran it on ubuntu 14.04. Anyway i tried the build i compiled like i said above and it works. So i guess problem solved i guess. Thanks.

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