Monday, June 15, 2009

Building GnuTLS 2.10.5 for Win32

GnuTLS is a library providing network security and used by many open-source software. I am compiling GnuTLS for Windows in order to port open-source software from Linux. GnuTLS depends on the following libraries:





The following commands are meant to be typed in a MSYS terminal. If you don’t understand what MSYS is, follow the instruction in this post to install MinGW first. Then, open a MSYS terminal from the desktop or Start menu.




  1. Zlib


    Although zlib is optional for GnuTLS, you can compile zlib as in this post.



  2. libgpg-error 1.10


    Compile libgpg-error:


    ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-static
    make
    make install


  3. libgcrypt 1.5.0


    Compile libgcrypt:


    ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-static
    make
    make install


  4. libtasn1 2.13


    Compile libtasn1:


    ./configure --prefix=/mingw
    make
    make install


  5. GnuTLS 2.10.5


    Build GNUtls:


    ./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-guile --enable-static
    make
    make install



Building GnuTLS 3.0.22



  1. zlib


    First, compile zlib as shown in this post.

  2. GMP


    Download the pre-compiled GMP library from MinGW and install it.



  3. Nettle


    Then, compile nettle:


    ./configure --prefix=/mingw && make && make install


  4. libtasn1


    Compile libtasn1:


    ./configure --prefix=/mingw
    make
    make install


  5. gnutls 3.0.20


    Then, build gnutls:


    ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-static -enable-threads=win32 --disable-guile --disable-nls
    make
    make install


4 comments:

  1. as of now ibgpg-error and libgcrypt require --enable-static flag to configure, otherwise GnuTLS will complain about not finding static versions of each.

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  2. Furthermore, if you get undefined reference to to getaddrinfo(), ect (socket stuff), make sure to add

    #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x501
    #include
    #include
    #include
    #include

    to every file that complains while linking. (#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x501 being the important one here!)

    AND if you have problems building a shared version --disable-cxx

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  3. PS: Formating error, that should have been

    #include stdio.h
    #include ws2tcpip.h
    #include winsock.h
    #include winsock2.h

    (Add brackets!)

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  4. Thanks for your helpful comments. I haven't compiled gnutls for a long time. Instead, I've been compiling OpenSSL more often. I think both have their own merits.

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