What platform does krb5 support. And does it support dynamic libraries on all platforms?

[Greg Hudson]

On 07/18/2012 10:03 PM, shuaijie wang wrote:
> 1. What platform does krb5 support? I mean unix family, linux, AIX,
> Solaris, HPUX(PA, IA), does krb5 support all of these platforms?

See http://k5wiki.kerberos.org/wiki/Supported_platforms

There are known bugs building the current Kerberos release on AIX at the
moment.  I'm not sure about HPUX.

> 2. I intend to make our code dynamically link to krb5 libs, so I wanna know
> if krb5 supports dynamic link libraries on all of these platforms?

If krb5 builds on a Unix-like platform, it builds with dynamic libraries.

> 3. Does MIT provide ready-to-use libraries that I can download for all the
> platforms? Or must I build it from source on all the platforms all by
> myself?

For Unix-like platforms, we only provide a source release.  Binary
packages are often provided by operating system vendors and package
repositories.