Introduction

Installing prequisites

Visual Studio 2008 Professional

Visual Studio 2008 Professional is required(?) to build OpenVPN on Windows.

Python

The new Windows build system is written in [Python ​http://www.python.org].

LZO library

Sources for the ​LZO library are required to build OpenVPN.

OpenSSL

Sources for the ​OpenSSL library are required to build OpenVPN.

Installing Git support

Git support is needed if you want to conveniently build the latest development code. You don't need Git support if you fetch the sources from another computer and copy them over, or use source code from release tar.gz or zip files.

Git for Windows

​Git for Windows or msysgit is required to work with Git repositories on Windows.

GitExtensions?

​GitExtensions makes working with Git easier on Windows. It includes Visual Studio 2008 plugin, Windows explorer support and a GUI to configure and use Git repositories.

KDiff3

​KDiff3 is used in handling merge conflicts. It's required by GitExtensions?.

Git Source Control Provider

​Git Source Control Provider is a Visual Studio 2008/2010 plugin. It can also be used to launch Git for Windows and GitExtensions? from within Visual Studio.

External links

• ​http://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2008-05-04/compiling-openvpn-windows
• ​http://rfc2324.org/howto/openvpn4win
• ​http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff547649.aspx