[Privoxy-devel] Improving Privoxy packages for Windows (was: Release date for Privoxy 3.0.29)

[Fabian Keil]

Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote on 2020-11-19:

> Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote on 2020-11-18:

> > A new release with TLS interception enabled - I need help with how to
> > enable brotli decompression, how to include openssl libraries etc. &
> > which version of software to use.
> 
> Maybe we should take the opportunity to rethink the whole
> build workflow for Windows. I don't think we should delay the
> release for this, though.
> 
> It would be great if future Privoxy binaries for Windows would
> use a recent and dynamically-linked pcre version so we can finally
> ditch the obsolete pcre copy in git (TODO item #142).
> 
> Once we have figured out how to ship Brotli and MbedTLS
> libraries adding another one is probably trivial.
> 
> We can't use OpenSSL on Windows because the "special exception"
> from section 3 of the GPLv2 does not apply.
> 
> Many other free software projects cross-compile for Windows:
> https://www.gpg4win.org/build-installer-gnulinux.html
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-build.git/tree/README
> https://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile/
> 
> Maybe we should do this as well.

Through the Emacs website I cam across MSYS2 today:
https://www.msys2.org/

It seems to be a packaging system based on pacman (used by Arch Linux)
and they already package Brotli, pcre and MbedTLS:
https://packages.msys2.org/base

Maybe we should try to get Privoxy into the MSYS2 distribution.

They don't seem to support older Windows versions but for
recent Windows versions it may be a good fit.

Fabian
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