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


From: Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:58:19 -0700

On 3/31/14, 6:35 PM, Pascal Quantin wrote:
2014-03-31 20:02 GMT+02:00 Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org
<mailto: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>
    > <mailto: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).

It looks like GMP has been relicensed to GPLv2+ / LGPLv3+ as of 6.0.0
(released a few days ago). Hopefully the OBS packages will be updated soon.
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