Build system / win32

[Phil Mayers]

So...

There was some discussion last week on the JANET-ROAMING list which 
culminated in several people expressing a desire for a native windows 
version of FreeRADIUS.

I spent a bit of time this weekend with the mingw32 cross-compiler and 
pthread/openssl cross-compiled libraries, and it does look like this 
might be possible. It will have a limit of 63 sockets because of the way 
select() works on Windows, and it'll need some slight portability 
tweaks, but the basic concept is sound; I've got a version that will 
start up and parse the config file...

...unfortunately that's as far as it'll get, because the build has 
trouble generating the various shared libraries in DLL form, namely 
libfreeradius-radius and libfreeradius-eap, as well as the rlm_xx.

The main reason seems to be the build system; If you have a fully 
autoconf/automake and libtool-ised source base, the cross-compile seems 
to work this all out for you, but in the case of FreeRADIUS there seem 
to be a mix - autoconf is used, but automake isn't and the libtool stuff 
seems to be hand-crafted to work around the various bugs it's had?

Before I spend any more time on this - what's the future of the build 
system? I'm only passingly familiar with autotools, but if we want to 
keep it, I'm happy to take a look?

If on the other hand the desire is to junk it (and in particular 
libtool) then there's no point spending any time on it, and I'll try a 
different approach (possibly a hand-crafted makefile.mingw32)

Cheers,
Phil