Samba4 on Windows

[Dan Shearer]

Samba4 will compile under Cygwin (no, Cygwin is not ideal) without
modification, but also without shared library support. It just works.

I'm looking at shared library support, but just for the record the instructions
are attached.

-- 
Dan Shearer
dan at shearer.org
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Compile Samba4 with Cygwin, without shared lib support
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Dan Shearer
September 2007

Introduction
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These instructions are for both people unfamiliar with Windows and for people
unfamiliar with building Unix software. Hence the painful detail.

Why Cygwin? Because it does not require Samba to understand Windows internals.
Cygwin is quite slow and is not actively developed. This is a feasibility
experiment. The next step is to get shared libraries (DLLs, on Windows) working.

After that, the next step should be MinwG with MSYS, which will allow native
compilation, giving libraries that third party native Windows executables can
link against in the way they expect.

Install Development Environment
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Start with a freshly installed Windows XP / 2003 Server, after the last reboot
required by installation.

Go to Start / Run
   cmd
   ping somewhere.on.internet

Start Internet Explorer (the blue "E" at the bottom)
Tools / Internet Options
Security tab
Internet (picture of the world)
Custom level button
Reset custom settings: Reset to Medium
Okay

firefox.com
Download Now
Run
Run
(Firefox setup process: make it the default)

Go to cygwin.org
Click on "Install or Update Now!"
Run setup.exe

   Click: Next / Install from Internet / c:\cygwinfiles
   <your connection details>
   <pick a server>
   Select Packages (easier if you maximise the window)

     Click "Devel"
     Click the circular arrows next to "Default", and wait a second
     Does it say "install"? If not, keep clicking until it does.
     Make sure every element under "devel" says it will be installed.
     Click "Net", checkbox next to "rsync"
     Click Next / Finish

Start / All Programs / Cygwin Bash Shell

Fetch and Compile Samba
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mkdir /samba ; cd /samba
rsync -avz samba.org::ftp/unpacked/samba4 .
apply the one-line patch below (which will go away once the global
flags are correctly set.)

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/samba
make pch
make
make install

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/samba/bin

try "smbclient -L //someserver -UAdministrator%password" for a start.

That's it.




--- heimdal/lib/hcrypto/rnd_keys.c      (revision 25151)
+++ heimdal/lib/hcrypto/rnd_keys.c      (working copy)
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@
 }
 #else
 void
-DES_rand_data(unsigned char *p, int s)
+DES_rand_data(void *p, int s)
 {
   des_not_rand_data (p, s);
 }