Problem fixed, still like to build tinc

[Henk van der Meer]

Рысь,

Thank you, It is encouraging to hear that you succeeded.
I will install a Debian VM and go from there.





Op 20-10-2015 om 11:32 schreef Рысь:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:08:35 +0200
> Henk van der Meer <henk at innomeer.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> With regards to my previous message and to help others.
>> Using the source I tracked the problem down to a call to getaddrinfo
>> that failed.
>> After a lot of trying I found out that somehow my host file got
>> notepad++ macintosh file endings. Never even knew it existed. Anyhow
>> changing that to Dos\Windows fixed my problem.
>> Maybe the error message could include the error number.
>> Looking/google-ing for a not English (Dutch) error message is hard.
>>
>> This proofs the added value of having the source code. being able to
>> build it would even be better. So if anybody has some pointers than
>> please.
>>
>> Henk
>>
> Hey, I've built tinc for windows myself recently. If you can install
> Debian in VM, then it's not that hard as it looks. Tinc website even
> includes guide for quick start:
> http://www.tinc-vpn.org/examples/cross-compiling-windows-binary/
>
> Even when it's not a problem to cross compile software for me I
> followed it because I am lazy :)
>
> I needed to build Tinc for Windows because I made some changes to
> source code recently which makes it incompatible with original protocol.
>
> I cross compiled many things from Windows to Windows (32->64), and I
> usually develop on Windows using only mingw.
>