From: Hans-Albert Schneider <Hans-Albert.Schneider@infineon.com>
To: Manish Agarwal <Manish.Agarwal@mphasis.com>
Cc: help-gnats@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows Compilation
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 06:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <405F0A68.50106@infineon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BA89F02E1B5E064AB970FAF7B0195AB80376D49F@kor-1035.corp.mphasis. com>
Manish Agarwal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Do you have any document explaining how to compile Gnats for Windows 2K/NT.
GNATS has been developed with UNIX-like systems in mind--it happily
compiles and runs on Solaris, Linux, etc.
However, a lot of things are different with Windows: there is no
"super-server" like inetd or xinetd, there is no sendmail or similar to
send and receive mails, etc.
On the other hand, most of these things are available via the CygWin
project (see http://www.cygwin.com/), so you may be able to achieve your
goal. Besides the base package, you need xinetd (to start gnatsd when
some client contacts it), maybe gcc and make (for compiling).
Concerning e-mail setup, you should be able to use ssmtp for sending
mails (exim is also available). If you create a POP3/IMAP4 mailbox on a
mail server, you could get the incoming mails from there using fetchmail
and telling it to use queue-pr as mail delivery agent, like this:
fetchmail --mda "/usr/local/libexec/gnats/queue-pr -d GreatNewDB -q" \
[other fetchmail options]
(assuming you use GNATS 4, your database is called GreatNewDB, and your
queue-pr is in /usr/local/libexec/gnats/queue-pr. CygWin lets you use
UNIX-style paths, including forward slashes. Your Windows drives can be
found as /cygdrive/C, /cygdrive/D, etc., so C:\winnt\system32 becomes
/cygdrive/C/winnt/system32).
Note that I never tried this approach; it is just an attempt to give you
a start if you really want to try it. If you succeed (or fail), please
share your experiences with the list, so some hints can be added to the
manual and/or the FAQ.
Hans-Albert
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