Making krb5 for Windows

[Greg Hudson]

On 08/05/2012 04:08 PM, Clifford Mc Cullough wrote:
> I followed the instructions for building MIT Kerberos krb5 for Windows located at krb5-1.10.2/src/windows/README.  I followed the Traditional Build Method, built the zip file and transferred it to my PC.  My PC is Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2010 Professional.
> 
> When I got to instruction 4, I used nmake KRB5_DNS_LOOKUP.  I received the error
> NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'KRB5_DNS_LOOKUP'

That's a usage/documentation error, in that the documentation is trying
to describe how to do something difficult without using a lot of words.

To define KRB5_DNS_LOOKUP, I think you'd have to do something like
"nmake CPPFLAGS=-DKRB5_DNS_LOOKUP".  But as mentioned in the
documentation, that wouldn't work because the code assumes a
libresolv-compatible resolver library.

> Next I tried nmake -f Makefile.  The make ran as far as
> NMAKE: fatal error U1073:  don't know how to make 'clients\kswitch\Makefile.in'
[...]

The rest of what you saw are bugs.  The current Windows developers are
building from a source checkout rather than a zip file, so the
kerbsrc.zip target has fallen out of date and we haven't had an internal
need to fix it.  Thanks for mentioning the issue.