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Re: Is it possible to update the version of gcrypt?


From: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 03:35:26 +0200

2014-03-31 20:02 GMT+02:00 Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>:

On 3/30/14 10:00 AM, Pascal Quantin wrote:
2014-01-08 0:25 GMT+01:00 Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com
<mailto:pascal.quantin () gmail com>>:

    Gerald, according to the README.Wireshark file found in
    gnutls-2.12.18-1.2-win32ws archive, you manually modified the
    OpenSUSE packages:
      - Definition files were created using "pexports".
      - Import libraries were created using the MSVC++ "lib" utility
    using the "make-lib.sh" script.
    I do not know where to find those utilities neither how to use them.

"pexports" is its own package in OpenSUSE, although it looks like
"gendef" (or even libtool itself) might be the preferred way to generate
.def files nowadays.

"make-lib.sh" is in the "bin" directory in
gnutls-2.12.18-1.2-win32ws.zip. It's just a series of "lib" commands, e.g.

lib /machine:x86 /def:libgcrypt-11.def /name:libgcrypt-11.dll \
  /out:libgcrypt-11.lib


    Maybe those missing steps on my side can explain my issue. Would you
    be OK if we to try to upgrade those libraries? If yes, could you
help?

    2 small things I noted:
    - libgcrypt-11.dll/lib is now renamed libgcrypt-20.dll/lib. It
    impacts config.nmake, Makefile.nmake,
    cmake\modules\FindGCRYPT.cmake, packaging\nsis\wireshark.nsi and
    ui\qt\QtShark.pro
    - the openSUSE libraries require an extra libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll file
    found in mingw32-libgcc-4.8.2-1.2.noarch.rpm archive (my own
    compiled libraries did not need it but I failed to compile a win64
    variant so far).

It looks like that's an exception handling library which can be linked
statically:


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12921911/mingw-libgcc-s-sjlj-1-dll-is-missing



Hi all,

I restarted playing with the libraries provided by OpenSUSE this weekend
and was able to get libgcrypt 1.6.0 working on my Windows machine.
The remaining problem is that we should either recompile GnuTLS 2.12.18
with this newer libgcrypt (Im' not willing to do so), or upgrade GnuTLS
to the version 3.1.22 provided by OpenSUSE.
We deactivated the use of GnuTLS 3.X in the past due to their move to
GPL3.0. But according to their website and the header files, the core
library is still LGPL 2.1+. Would it make it usable for us?

GnuTLS switched to LGPLv3+ in version 3.0, then back to LGPLv2.1+ in
version 3.1.10. We need switch to a newer 3.x release at some point
since the 2.12 branch is no longer maintained as far as I know. However,
we need to be careful with the version of GMP that we ship since it
switched to LGPLv3+:

https://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-devel/2013-August/003357.html


OK, here is where I stand.
I have a patch allowing to build win32 and win64 (presumably, I do not have
access to my win64 machine for a few days) Wireshark against GnuTLS 3.1.22
and Grrypt 1.6.0 (thanks to the pre built packages provided by OpenSUSE).
The newer GnuTLS 3.1.22 package creates new dependencies on the following
packages: libgmp-5.0.5, libnettle-2.7-3, libhogweed-2.7-3,
libp11-kit0-0.20.1 and libffi-3.0.13.
Nettle is LGPL, p11-kit and ffi license does not seem problematic, and GMP
5.0.5, as you stated, is LGPLv3+ (only release 4.2.1 seems usable). So this
is definitely a blocker.
There is also an issue with the libp11-kit0-0.20.1 library provided by
OpenSUSE folks. It uses the function strerror_s from MSVCRT.dll, but this
symbol is not exported by the Windows XP MSVCRT (it is running fine on
Windows 7). I was about to try to recompile the p11-kit library myself to
avoid this dependency but the GMP licensing issue is depressing (I did not
check yet how difficult it was to recompile the 4.2.1 version and hope that
it would work with the GnuTLS pre compiled library).

Pascal.
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