Automatic TINC configuration & launch (win)

[EleGoS]

Guus Sliepen ha scritto:
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 01:48:53PM +0100, EleGoS wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm building a VB.NET application in order to setup the configuration 
>> files of a net (and this is the really easy part of my project) via INI 
>> file, but now I've got some problems...
>>
>> launching tincd -n [NET] -K I should insert some variables, and it is 
>> impossible to auto-fill them.
>>     
>
> Which variables do you want to automatically fill in? 
>   

exactly what the program asks (i.e. the file without C:, but I assume 
that sources are up-to-date and no need to exclude C:)

>   
>> So I've downloaded the source files and opened it. I found the part of
>> that code and modified it (simply no scanf, directly the same variable
>> suggested by the program),
>>     
>
> Can you show me what you modifies exactly?
>   
sure:

tinc-1.0.2/src/conf.c, line 444 and follow:

        fprintf(stdout, _("Please enter a file to save %s to [%s]: "),
                what, filename);
        fflush(stdout);

        fn = readline(stdin, NULL, NULL);



to simply:

        fn = filename


>   
>> and then I tried to compile, but my Dev-CPP says that System.h is not
>> a file (in the header part), and the compiling ends there...
>>     
>
> I don't know Dev-CPP. You should try compiling it by starting a MinGW
> shell and type:
>
> cd tinc-1.0.5
> ./configure
> make
>
> You might need to add extra options to ./configure for it to be able to
> find the OpenSSL, zlib and LZO libraries.
>   

I haven't got a linux machine (my linux laptop was robbed some days ago :( )
Do you know a good compiler/linker for windows? Maybe GCC? But I don't 
know the same procedure for OS windows (it's so easy in linux :P )


>   
>> Another problem is device-related: I want to auto-rename the connection, 
>> but I have no idea on how to do that (even DOS or VB.NET commands). I've 
>> tried opening OemWin2k.inf, but no luck...
>>     
>
> I have no idea how you should do that...
>   

That's not a real problem, is really easy to tell a windows-user where 
to search and edit (tutorial step-by-step) :P



Thanks