[krbdev.mit.edu #7963] Building Krb5 on windows

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I understood that the krb4 was proved to be unsecured and that's why there is no support in it anymore.
Changing the NODEBUG is not helping with either value.
Is there a way to ensure that the build on windows will work?

Ben

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From: Benjamin Kaduk via RT [mailto:rt at krbdev.mit.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 2:05 PM
To: Ben-David, Ben (BBENDAVI)
Subject: [krbdev.mit.edu #7963] Building Krb5 on windows 


[BBENDAVI at arinc.com - Thu Jul 10 16:35:51 2014]:

>         copy lib\obj\AMD64\dbg\*.lib "c:\freeware\krb\lib\."
> The system cannot find the path specified.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'copy' : return code '0x1'

That command line would be for a debug build, which is the default (the knob is NODEBUG, not DEBUG as I said in my previous message, sorry).  Weird failures are expected if the value of NODEBUG does not match the compiler environment (the "setenv" invocation or similar, depending on the visual studio release in use).

> That's the error I'm getting after doing "nmake install"
> The version is 5-1.12.1
> I got it from MIT: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/

The krb5 1.NN releases are for Unix systems only and are not necessarily expected to build on windows systems.  We don't have tarballs of the source code for KfW releases on that page, but they are available via github, e.g., https://github.com/krb5/krb5/releases/kfw-4.0.1-final .

If nothing else but to decrease the number of unknown variables, it's probably best to retry with that source tree.