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How to build using Cygwin

Cygwin provides ports of many GNU/Linux tools and a POSIX API layer. This is the most complete way to get the GNU/Linux terminal feel under Windows. Cygwin has a setup that helps you install all the tools you need.

This document describes how to build openvpn-gui using Cygwin. It cross-compiles a native Windows executable, using the MinGW-w64 compilers that are available as packages in the Cygwin repository.

Required packages

To build openvpn-gui you need to have these packages installed, including their dependencies. You can install these packages using the standard setup.exe of Cygwin.

  • autoconf
  • automake
  • pkg-config
  • make
  • mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core
  • mingw64-x86_64-g++
  • mingw64-x86_64-openssl

Build

To build use these commands:

autoreconf -iv
./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
make

32-bit or 64-bit

The above describes how to build the 64-bit version of openvpn-gui. If you want to build the 32-bit version, simply replace x86_64 with i686.

Both 32-bit and 64-bit version of Cygwin can build the 32-bit and 64-bit version of openvpn-gui.exe. Just install the packages you need and use the right --host option.