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Build X2GoClient and 3rd-party programs for MS Windows

X2Go Client for Windows need several programs to be able running on Windows

All this programs can be built from source, downloaded from our server or from their project sites. You can also copy that components from X2Go Client install directory.

Build X2Go Client from source

Installing MinGW

MinGW is a gcc compiler for Windows. You need it to build X2Go Client. Qt-4.8 for Windows should be used with MinGw-4.4. Unfortunately, you can not download binaries for this version from MinGW project site any more. You can build it from source or download it from X2Go Site

Extract it to your disk (D:\mingw in this example)

Installing Qt

You need Qt to build X2Go Client from source. Qt-4.8 is tested and recommended for current version of X2Go Client.

Download and install a minGW version of Qt-4.8 for Windows from here

In this example D:\Qt will be chosen as installation directory

Configuring Qt

It is recommended to configure Qt to build statically linked applications. It will take some time and you can skip that step, but in this case you must provide a Qt libraries with your X2Go Client binary.

As X2Go Client need a Qt with SSL support you must install OpenSSL for windows. You can download OpenSSL for Windows here or from our site. Install it to your system (for example to directory d:\OpenSSL-Win32)

After installation, copy OpenSSL header files into include directory from MinGW d:\OpenSSL-Win32\include\openssl → d:\mingw\include\openssl

Open Qt Command Prompt and start configuration script

>configure -release -static -openssl

Rebuild Qt

>make sub-src

Installing libssh

You need libssh to build X2Go Client.

Get libssh library package built with MinGW from the KDE Windows project or from our site. Extract files from archive.

Copy headers files in “include” directory of MinGW

libssh\include\libssh → d:\mingw\include\libssh

Copy library files in “lib” directory of MinGW

libssh\lib\*.* → d:\mingw\lib\

Build X2Go Client from source

Open Qt Command Prompt, change to your build directory and get X2Go Client sources from git

>git clone git://code.x2go.org/x2goclient

Build X2Go Client

>cd x2goclient
>config_win.bat
>mingw32_make

nxproxy

you can download nxproxy, and it libraries here

If you want build nxproxy from source, you need install and configure Cygwin first.

Installing Cygwin

Download and startCygwin installer

Choose your cygwin directory. For example c:\cygwin. Follow installer instructions.

on installer page “Select Packages” you can select programs and libraries that should be installed in your cygwin environment. For building of nxproxy you will need:

  • autoconf
  • automake
  • gcc4
  • gcc4-g++
  • git
  • libX11-devel
  • libjpeg-devel
  • libmpfr4
  • make
  • mc
  • zlib-devel
  • wget

Installing libpng

You will need a libpng12 to build nxproxy. This version of libpng is not available on current version of cygwin. You should install it manually.

Open a cygwin shell. Go to the src directory

$cd /usr/src

get a libpng12 from project site

$wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng12/1.2.50/libpng-1.2.50.tar.gz
$tar -xzvf libpng-1.2.50.tar.gz
$cd libpng-1.2.50

build and install libpng

$./configure --prefix=/usr/
$make && make install

Building nxproxy

open a cygwin shell and change to your build directory. In this example d:\Build will be used

$cd /cygdrive/d/Build

get a nx-libs sources

$git clone git://code.x2go.org/nx-libs.git
$cd nx-libs

build nxcomp

$cd nxcomp
$autoconf
$./configure
$make
$cd ..

build nxproxy

$cd nxproxy
$autoconf
$./configure
$make
$strip nxproxy.exe
$cd ..

nxproxy binary (nxproxy.exe) is ready. Now you can copy it in to the installation directory of x2goclient. To be able to run nxproxy you should also copy needed libraries in this directory:

from nxcomp directory (d:\Build\nx-libs\nxcomp) - cygXcomp.dll

from cygwin directory (c:\cygwin\bin):

  • cyggcc_s-1.dll
  • cygjpeg-8.dll
  • cygpng-3.dll
  • cygstdc++-6.dll
  • cygwin1.dll
  • cygz.dll

Open SSH Server

X2Go Client for Windows using modified Cygwin Open SSH Server for file sharing. You can download it here

If you want to build it from source, you should install Cygwin first.

After that run Cygwin installer (setup.exe), navigate to “Select Packages” page and install packages, you need to build Open SSH Server:

  • libedit
  • libedit-devel
  • libkrb5-devel
  • libncurses-devel
  • openssl-devel
  • libwrap-devel
  • patch

For openssh you should install both, binary and source packages (toggle “Src” checkbox beside of package name). Source package will be installed in /usr/src directory in your Cygwin installation.

Copy openssh tarball to your build directory. In this example d:\Build will be used

$cp /usr/src/openssh-6.1p1.tar.gz /cygdrive/d/Build/

Extract sources and change to openssh source directory

$cd /cygdrive/d/Build/
$tar -xzvf openssh-6.1p1.tar.gz
$cd openssh-6.1p1

Get and apply patch, which allow use Open SSH Server with X2Go Client

$wget http://code.x2go.org/releases/source/openssh-cygwin/openssh-6.0p1-2.x2go.patch
$patch.exe < openssh-6.0p1-2.x2go.patch

Build Open SSH Server

$./configure --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --with-kerberos5=/usr --with-tcp-wrappers --with-libedit --with-xauth=/usr/bin/xauth --build=mingw32
$make
$strip *.exe

Open SSH Server binaries are ready. Now you can copy them in to the installation directory of x2goclient:

  • sftp.exe
  • sftp-server.exe
  • ssh-keygen.exe
  • sshd.exe

To be able to run Open SSH Server you should also copy needed programs and libraries from cygwin directory (c:\cygwin\bin):

  • sh.exe
  • cygasn1-8.dll
  • cygcom_err-2.dll
  • cygcrypt-0.dll
  • cygcrypto-1.0.0.dll
  • cygedit-0.dll
  • cyggcc_s-1.dll
  • cyggssapi-3.dll
  • cygheimbase-1.dll
  • cygheimntlm-0.dll
  • cyghx509-5.dll
  • cygiconv-2.dll
  • cygintl-8.dll
  • cygkafs-0.dll
  • cygkrb5-26.dll
  • cygncursesw-10.dll
  • cygreadline7.dll
  • cygroken-18.dll
  • cygsqlite3-0.dll
  • cygssp-0.dll
  • cygwin1.dll
  • cygwind-0.dll
  • cygwrap-0.dll
  • cygz.dll

Some of this libraries are also used by nxproxy. Open SSH Server and nxproxy should be built using same version of Cygwin.

PulseAudio

you can download PulseAudio for Windows here or from project site. Building PulseAudio from source is not the part of this Howto

VcXsrv

you can download VcXsrv for Windows here or from project site. Building VcXsrv from source is not the part of this Howto

wiki/development/build-howto-mswin/x2goclient.1363698118.txt.gz · Last modified: 2013/03/19 13:01 by ncryer