Re: Compiling NetSNMP for x64 Windows

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Xiang Li <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> We have recently successfully built net-snmp5.6.1 and netsnmp 5.5.1
> on windows x64 systems when working on our SNMP API products.
>
> No special things need to be done. You just need to build net-snmp
> in a x64 build environment. For example, if you use Microsoft platform
> SDK 7,  you would do :
>
> Click "Start->Microsoft Windows SDK v7.0->CMD shell"
> setenv /x64 /release
> and then use  build.pl  or build.bat like you do normally for 32-bit
> Windows.
>
> For a "dynamic" build, if you use openssl, you need to get openssl build
> for
> x64 windows from slproweb. You need to copy the 64-bit openssl lib version:
> from:
> C:\OpenSSL-1.0.0.c-Win64\lib\VC\libeay32MT.lib and
> C:\OpenSSL-1.0.0.c-Win64\lib\VC\libeay32MD.lib
>
> into
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\lib\amd64,
>
> Also copy the "openssl" header files folder as you would do for 32-bit
> builds.
> After that the build should work.
>

Thanks for the feedback - I'll update README.win32. But I'll document to
copy the OpenSSL binaries in a separate directory instead of the Visual
Studio directories.


> For a  "static" build,  unless you add linking with "Gdi32.lib", the build
> will fail  with link errors.  For a "static" build, NETSNMP-5.5 is
> linked with
> Gdi32.lib but netsnmp-5.6.1 and 5.5.1 are NOT! This appears to be a bug.
>

I haven't seen this error message yet. With which configuration options did
this occur ?

If needed we can share our Windows Net-SNMP binary with the community.
> We can post it on our website so anyone  can download it freely.
>

Dave, how far did you get with documenting the build procedure for 32-bit
binaries ? How much additional effort would it take to generate 64-bit
binaries too ?

Bart.

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