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:

• zlib


• libgpg-error


• libgcrypt


• libtasn1

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