[PATCH] Add examples/winexe

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Sep 4 03:53:23 UTC 2018


On Mon, 2018-08-27 at 16:32 +0200, Volker Lendecke via samba-technical
wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> A customer asked me to smb2-enable winexe from
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/winexe/. That sourceforge project is
> based on Samba code from 2012 and before. It was not feasible to fix
> the code to modern internal Samba APIs, so I rewrote the core
> Samba-side of things.
> 
> This has a few caveats:
> 
> It can't be tested in autobuild, we don't have Windows around
> 
> The Windows service files are GPLv3 only. Those are 1:1 taken from the
> sourceforge project. The original author seems unreachable, so
> relicensing looks difficult, and I don't feel capable of writing a
> Windows service from scratch.
> 
> It requires mingw to build. We could add mingw to sn-devel, so at
> least the build keeps working.
> 
> As winexe for some scenarious seems highly interesting, I would like
> to get this into mainline Samba despite those caveats.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Thanks, Volker

While this (clearly) passes on Gitlab CI and sn-devel, it fails on
travis CI:  https://travis-ci.org/samba-team/samba/jobs/423489492

Any idea what I need to change in the Travis CI setup to have that
link?  

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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