Add OpenLDAP MSYS2 builder #25
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This does a full client build of OpenLDAP, using upstream's autotools based build chain on MSYS2, but using MSVC build tools. This requires wrappers for the MSVC build tools; ar-lib and compile are taken unmodified from automake; windres is a minimalist self-made wrapper. We also need POSIX regex for the client tools (such as ldapsearch); we use rxspencer[1], which we build on the fly and link in statically. Using upstream's autotools based toolchain has the obvious drawback that building now requires MSYS2 instead of "native" Windows tools only. On the other hand, instead of needing hand-made configuration and Visual Studio solutions, what is volatile regarding updates of the library, we only need a manageable patch set. Plus, we get the client tools basically for free. If we want to distribute them is another question. [1] <https://github.com/garyhouston/rxspencer>
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This does a full client build of OpenLDAP, using upstream's autotools based build chain on MSYS2, but using MSVC build tools. This requires wrappers for the MSVC build tools; ar-lib and compile are taken unmodified from automake; windres is a minimalist self-made wrapper.
We also need POSIX regex for the client tools (such as ldapsearch); we use rxspencer[1], which we build on the fly and link in statically.
Using upstream's autotools based toolchain has the obvious drawback that building now requires MSYS2 instead of "native" Windows tools only. On the other hand, instead of needing hand-made configuration and Visual Studio solutions, what is volatile regarding updates of the library, we only need a manageable patch set. Plus, we get the client tools basically for free. If we want to distribute them is another question.
[1] https://github.com/garyhouston/rxspencer