Re: [squid-users] Re: Effort for port 3.1 to windows?

On 26/04/11 12:29, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 26/04/11 11:02, Yucong Sun (叶雨飞) wrote:
>> Well, thanks for the pointer, But as far as I can see there, it's a
>> installer, how did you generate the binary?
>>
>> what I really hoping for, is to compile and run 3.1 normally on windows.
>> Well, 2.7 may cut it as well since I need mostly existing features,
>> but I can't get it compile correctly either. And current 2.7 windows
>> version requires to compile under vc6, is just impossible these days.
>>
>> I'm surprised no one has been taking on squid on windows seriously (or
>> I didn't find it), but by far, most proxy software I tried on windows
>> have different problem, while squid is the best atm I think.
>
>
> There is work underway (slowly) on getting Squid up to at least build
> again on Windows.
>
> The more active upstream dev (myself and Francesco Chemolli) only have
> access to MinGW test machine and are blocked by a few bugs which we need
> to be diagnosed and patch created by someone with direct access to a
> MinGW setup (http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3203 and
> http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3043).
>

UPDATE. We have managed to identify and fix bug 3203 now. I'm back into
fixing minor build issues again, but 3043 remains a problem.

> Guido Serassio has better access but no time to work on it (sponsorship
> to recompense for his taking time off work will help a lot there,
> contact him about it).
>
> AFAIK none of us have access to recent VC versions (Guido mentioned
> something about the new IDE versions causing major pains in the build
> process).
>
> Patches on 3.HEAD code to get Windows going are *very* welcome.
>

Amos

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