Compiling C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.02 on Cygwin

[Keith Christian]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 15:31 Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu> wrote:

> On 11/30/2020 5:17 PM, Keith Christian via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:44 PM Jeffrey Altman
> > <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com> wrote:
> >> I suspect building C-Kermit with SSH, OpenSSL, Kerberos v5 support is
> >> going to be problematic since none of that code has been updated in more
> >> than a decade to keep up with the latest upstream packages.  I suggest
> >> you start by trying to build for a generic linux target without any
> >> security features.
> >>
> >> Jeffrey Altman
> >> former Kermit developer
> >
> > Jeffrey,
> >
> > Thanks so much, appreciate your taking the time to respond.  I was
> > puzzled when C-Kermit was dropped from Cygwin several years ago.
> > Former Kermit developer, quite the credentials!
>
> Just checked, and this does not compile out of the box for either the
> linux or posix target.  Not
> sure how much work will be required.  Too bad it is not set up to use
> ./configure to see what's
> actually available on the platform / how to use it ...
>
> Best wishes - Eliot Moss
>


Thanks, Eliot.