Re: How to build OpenLDAP on Windows using "configure" + MSVC 6 compiler

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Sung Ho Jee wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am under the impression that this should be possible if I pass the right 
> set of environment variables to "./configure" in the Cygwin environment, 
> but I am struggling.
> Can anyone point me to some examples/instructions to get me started?
>
> I've visited a couple of sites that have "ported" OpenLDAP to Windows 
> (http://www.voxgratia.org/docs/windows_openldap.html, 
> http://lucas.bergmans.us/hacks/openldap/), but I thought there was now 
> full support for building on Windows in the official downloads.
>   
Building on Windows has been supported for many years (see the 
FAQ-o-Matic http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/300.html) but it uses 
gcc, not MSVC. The MSVC support has been withdrawn; it was far out of 
date and nobody was interested in maintaining it.

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