On Monday 13 March 2006 08:08, Michal Trojnara wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
I may need to include Stunnel with my application so my clients behind restrictive firewalls can still enable me to work on their systems with RealVNC. I'm working with clients on both Windows and Linux.
Is there a way to get static binaries for Linux? I don't know C or C++ or much more than running ./configure && make && make install. I'd like to know if it is possible or what is needed to create static binaries of the files so I could easily install stunnel on any Linux system by just copying over the proper files.
I see no reason to support "install by copy".
For end users who need it working, but don't have the background to deal with any possible failures in compiling/making it.
For easy installation use: apt-get install stunnel4 or whatever command is used on your distribution.
If I knew I were always going to have it installed on Debian, I'd have no problem with that, but I know there are some cases where it'll be installed on RedHat or Fedora, and I don't want to risk running into RPM hell.
So there's no way to create static binaries?
BTW: Make sure to distribute the source code and the license together with stunnel as required by GPL!
Source code is easy -- just a tarball that I can undo in a directory.
Also, what archive format does the Windows installer use?
Nothing standard.
I'd like to do something similar for Windows, so if I could pull the files out of the installer and copy them over myself, it would be a huge help.
Just install it on a testing machine and grab the files. Don't forget to distribute the source code and the license together with stunnel as required by GPL!
Okay. I wanted to be sure that if I did that, I wouldn't miss some files in other directories, like .dll files in the C:\Windows tree.
Thanks!
Hal