Howto compile Tor on a windows system

[Nick Mathewson]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:52:45AM +0200, Martin Balvers wrote:
> After installing the openssl, zlib and event.h at the right
>locations,

Did you put the rest of the libevent source anywhere?  Are you
building it too?  Libevent is more than a header file.

>    I
> can get Tor to compile, but then I get a bunch of link errors...

In general, when you're reporting errors on a mailing list, you should
tell people what errors you are getting.  Otherwise it's hard to tell
what is going wrong.

> Who creates the windows binary that can be downloaded from the site,

Me.

> and
> how is it compiled ?

With VC7, and the project file in CVS.  Matt Edman sent us an nmake
makefile for 0.0.9 a while ago, but it never got ported to 0.1.0 or
later.  I can try to do this soon if you like.

The steps are:
 - Make sure that everything is up to date:
   - Get the most recent zlib source
   - Get the most recent openssl library.
   - Get the most recent libevent source.
 - Build.

> Is it possible to compile a windows binary in Cygwin ?

It was a while ago; I haven't tried in a while.  If you have any
patches to make it work with vc6 or cygwin, please send them in.  I'd
love to have Tor build correctly under more compilers.

hoping this helps,
-- 
Nick Mathewson
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