Compiling Kerberos for windows

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk at mit.edu
Mon Nov 21 20:14:40 EST 2016


On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 04:05:33PM +0100, Hannes Krennmeir wrote:
> Hi, I’m trying to compile Kerberos (kfw-4.1-src.zip) for windows.
> 
> My try fails at step 6: nmake [NODEBUG=1]
> I get an error on this line:
> cl -Fe.\obj\i386\rel\wconfig.exe -Fo.\obj\i386\rel\wconfig.obj wconfig.c

What is the error message that is output?

> I have no idea. What is wconfig.exe? I can’t find any information to this
> exe. Could you please give me a hint?

wconfig.exe is a build-time tool that generates (e.g.) Makefile from Makefile.in,
a role which is fulfilled by the autoconf-generated configure script on
non-windows.

-Ben


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