Re: Gnus with SSL on Windows 7

[Deniz Dogan]

2011/3/23 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:24:39 +0100 Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
> DD> I've installed OpenSSL 1.0.0 for Windows and customized the variable
> DD> `tls-program' as such:
>
> DD> ----
>
> DD> '(tls-program ("C:/openssl-win32/bin/openssl.exe s_client -connect
> DD> %h:%p -no_ssl2 -ign_eof"))
>
> DD> ----
>
> DD> I have my authentication credentials in ~/.authinfo.
>
> DD> When I do M-x gnus, Emacs connects and displays a few successful
> DD> messages in the echo area but then just hangs until I C-g.
> ...
> DD> Note that the buffer of course doesn't contain the letters "^M", I
> DD> merely translated the "C-q C-m" character to avoid any encoding issues
> DD> that may or may not occur.
>
> DD> So any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
>
> I don't use W32 myself so I don't know how to fix this (but it's a
> common issue with the command-line utilities).  This morning I posted a
> patch (half of it is from Claudio Bley) on emacs-devel, though, which
> enables C-level GnuTLS support for Gnus so none of this is necessary.
> It's against the Emacs trunk.  Do you want to try it out before it goes
> into the trunk and let me know if it works for you?
>

I'd love to try it, but the problem is I never build Emacs from the
sources myself. I simply use Sean Sieger's weekly builds.

If there is some easy way to build Emacs from the sources on a Windows
system (not involving Cygwin, which breaks my brain) I'd love to try
it.

-- 
Deniz Dogan