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Build X2GoClient and 3rd-party programs for MS Windows

This howto explains how to build the MS Windows version of X2Go Client. This howto explains how to build the 32-bit version of X2Go Client on MS Windows. If someone successfully attempts a 64-bit (which should work, but needs to be tested), please contribute to this wiki page.

Overview of third-party components

X2Go Cltient for Windows needs several 3rd-party programmes for being able to run on MS Windows:

  • PuTTY for Kerberos 5 (GSSAPI) authentication

All these programmes can be built from source, downloaded from our server or from their project sites. You can also copy the 3rd-party components from X2Go Client installation (on MS Windows) directory.

Build Utilities

For building X2Go Client, we highly recommend to install MSysGit and Notepad2.

MSysGit provides a Unix-like shell (bash) environment, so that you can use Git easily from the command line.

Notepad2 is a freeware alternative to Notepad shipped with Microsoft Windows. Notepad2 understands UTF-8 text formats (and others) and can handle Unix-style line endings. In case you want to introspect a code file, this tool is very handy.

Build X2Go Client

Installing MinGW

MinGW is a gcc compiler for Windows. You need it to build X2Go Client. For the time being, X2Go Client uses Qt 4.8.5 specifically. Qt-4.8.5 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).

Finally, you have to add these MinGW executable directories to your PATH environment variable: D:\mingw\bin, D:\mingw\libexec\gcc\mingw32\4.4.0.

Installing Qt

You need Qt to build X2Go Client from source. Qt-4.8.5 is tested and recommended for current version of X2Go Client.

Download and install the MinGW version of Qt-4.8.5 for Windows from here

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

Configuring Qt

Providing OpenSSL support in Qt

As X2Go Client needs a Qt with SSL support you must install OpenSSL for MS Windows. OpenSSL depends on the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributables. Get that (32-bit version, x86) from the Microsoft site and install it prior to installing OpenSSL.

Download the OpenSSL installer for Windows by browsing here and selecting “Win32 OpenSSL v1.0.1*” where “1.0.1*” s the current version. You can also download it from our site, but only do so if we have the current version. Install it on your build system (for example to directory d:\OpenSSL-Win32).

After installation, copy OpenSSL header files into MinGW's include directory:

d:\OpenSSL-Win32\include\openssl -> d:\mingw\include\openssl
Currently_testing: C:\x2gobuilds\i686-4.8.2-release-posix-dwarf-rt_v3-rev4\i686-w64-mingw32\include\openssl

Static builds of Qt with SSL support

It is recommended to configure Qt to build statically linked applications. It will take some time to reconfigure Qt for static builds. You surely can skip this step, but in this case you must provide Qt libraries with your X2Go Client binary.

Open Qt Command Prompt and start configuration script

$ configure -release -static -openssl

Rebuild Qt

$ make sub-src

Dynamically linked builds of Qt with SSL support

If you choose to build dynamically linked applications with Qt, you still have to rebuild Qt in order to get OpenSSL support into Qt.

Open Qt Command Prompt and start configuration script

$ configure -release -openssl

Rebuild Qt

$ make sub-src

Installing libssh

You need libssh to build X2Go Client.

X2Go Client 4.0.3.0 uses libssh 0.6.3 with pageant support. Get the library package built with MinGW from here on our site.

2Go Client 4.0.2.1 uses 0.5.5 with pageant support. Get the library package built with MinGW from here on our site.

Prior versions can be found here the KDE Windows project and here on 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.git

Build X2Go Client 4.0.2.1 or earlier:

$ cd x2goclient
$ PATH=%PATH%;D:\MinGW\libexec\gcc\mingw32\4.4.0\
$ config_win.bat
$ mingw32-make

Build X2Go Client 4.0.3.0 or later:

$ cd x2gohelper
$ mingw32-make
$ cd ..

X2Go Client binaries (x2goclient.exe & x2gohelper.exe) are in d:\build\x2goclient\release\ directory.

(x2gohelper.exe only applies to X2Go Client 4.0.3.0 and later.)

Pack/Compress X2Go Client

You may want to pack X2Go Client to reduce it size. You can do it with upx, which is available for Windows, Linux and Cygwin.

X2Go Client package folder

To make X2Go Client usable on Windows, you must put X2Go Client binary and all libraries and components in one directory.

All of the files referenced below (apart from x2goclient.exe) can be obtained from x2goclient-contrib.git on http://git.x2go.org

In the base directory of your X2Go Client source tree create a folder named dist/. To this folder you have to add the following components:

  • X2Go Client with libraries
  • nxproxy with libraries
  • Open SSH Server with libraries (optional)
  • VcXsrv
  • PulseAudio (optional)

Add X2Go Client with libraries to package folder

  1. Add x2goclient.exe (from the release/ folder) to the dist/ folder.
  2. Add MinGW libraries (copy from D:\MinGW\bin)
    • libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
    • mingwm10.dll
  3. Add OpenSSL libraries (copy from your OpenSSL installation directory)
    • libeay32.dll
    • ssleay32.dll
    • libssh.dll
  4. libzip library (available here on our site) (binaries originally from the KDE Windows project site)
    • libzip.dll
  5. zlib library for libzip (available here on our site) (binaries originally from the KDE Windows project site )
    • libz.dll
  6. zlib library for libssh (available here on our site) (binaries originally from the zlib project site)
    • zlib1.dll
  7. If you want to use X2Go Client on older versions of Windows, you should put the “Microsoft Visual C\+\+ Redistributable 2008 Package”'s dll files into your X2Go Client package directory. (Originally downloaded from the Microsoft download site).
    • Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest
    • msvcm90.dll
    • msvcp90.dll
    • msvcr90.dll
Currently_testing: MinGW Libraries are instead (timestamps: 2014-03-07):
  • libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll (newer version)
  • libstdc-6.dll * libwinpthread-1.dll </note> ===== Build/Add nxproxy with libraries ===== You can download nxproxy, and its libraries [[http://code.x2go.org/releases/binary-win32/3rd-party/nxproxy
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