Re: [Bug-wget] Re: Compilation in Visual Studio 8 (and against msvcrt.dll)

[Micah Cowan]

So, I was hoping the guy that had been maintaining the MSVC stuff would
speak up here, but that didn't happen.

I'm not accustomed to maintaining the Windows stuff, though I do have
the means; other people have done that in the past. The current 1.12
sources do not currently build under Visual Studio, as some of the
source files have changed around, some new are needed, some old have
been replaced. Meanwhile, the Unix sources are essentially ready for
release; I haven't decided yet what I'm going to do about Windows
builds. Maintaining the Visual Studio version myself isn't something I'd
be ecstatic about; we fortunately have someone  maintaining the Mingw
build files.

So basically, the state of affairs for Windows, at least as built by
Visual Studio, is a bit uncertain at the moment. If I do decide to bring
the VS build stuff up to snuff, though, then I will take a look at
including these changes as well. Though I should say that it hampers
things when the original poster does not provide contact information...
I am frequently required to get copyright waivers signed when the
contributions are significant enough... though it looks like this one
doesn't qualify.

We'll probably get the Visual Studio stuff up-to-date one way or
another; but it may come after the release of the Unix- (and mingw-)
ready sources.

-mjc

Paul Franklin wrote:
> This is my first message to this list so I apologize if I do
> something wrong or do not follow the correct protocol.
> 
> I would like to have a statically-linked wget for Windows.  I have
> used wget for years and occasionally need the modern one on Windows.
> 
> So when a Google search showed me the recent (2009-07-18 02:35:55 GMT)
> message to this list from Gustavo Lopes (mailto:address@hidden
> or mailto:address@hidden), I also noticed that there had been no
> reply to it.  No "thank you, we will put your patches into the 1.12
> release" or "we have no way to compile and test Windows patches" or
> any sort of follow-up message at all.
> 
> In the hope his patches can be incorporated into the next release,
> I am sending this message to the list -- to ask for just that.
> 
> In any case, thank you in advance for taking the time to read it.
> 
> p.s. I append his original message, pasted, for reference only.
> 
> ===============================================================
> 
> I've tried today to compile wget statically linked against openssl and
> dynamically linked against msvcrt.dll (which required using headers and
> libs from the Windows Driver Development Kit, I used 6001.18002), so that
> I didn't have to distribute the runtime.
> 
> It didn't compile cleanly. In case anywone is interested, I attach the
> changes I had to make. It works in XP SP3 (but will also probably work in
> SP1 and SP2) and vista. IPv6 works in both operating systems.
> 
> The diffs are against 1.11.4.
> 


-- 
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/