| 5 | 5 | The traditional way to build OpenVPN for Windows is using autotools, either in a [http://www.mingw.org/ MinGW] environment or by cross-compiling the Windows binary on *NIX. This works, but does not allow signing the TUN/TAP driver, which is required for Windows Vista/7 and later. Due to this a new, relatively simple Python-based build system was written. This new build system allows building OpenVPN on Windows more easily, but some parts of the build may require a commercial version of the Visual Studio development environment. Fortunately the new build system only uses Visual Studio tools (nmake, compiler, linker, etc.), so learning VS's graphical user interface is not necessary. Full integration with Visual Studio ''should'' be possible, too. |
