1 Building Heimdal for Windows
7 Heimdal can be built and run on Windows XP or later. Older OSs may
8 work, but have not been tested.
13 * __Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler__: Heimdal has been tested with
14 Microsoft Visual C/C++ compiler version 15.x. This corresponds to
15 Microsoft Visual Studio version 2008. The compiler and tools that
16 are included with Microsoft Windows SDK versions 6.1 and later can
17 also be used for building Heimdal. If you have a recent Windows
18 SDK, then you already have a compatible compiler.
20 * __Microsoft Windows SDK__: Heimdal has been tested with Microsoft
21 Windows SDK version 6.1 and 7.0.
23 * __Microsoft HTML Help Compiler__: Needed for building documentation.
25 * __Perl__: A recent version of Perl. Tested with ActiveState
28 * __Python__: Tested with Python 2.5 and 2.6.
30 * __WiX__: The Windows [Installer XML toolkit (WiX)][1] Version 3.x is
31 used to build the installers.
33 * __Cygwin__: The Heimdal build system requires a number of additional
34 tools: `awk`, `yacc`, `lex`, `cmp`, `sed`, `makeinfo`, `sh`
35 (Required for running tests). These can be found in the Cygwin
36 distribution. MinGW or GnuWin32 may also be used instead of Cygwin.
37 However, a recent build of `makeinfo` is required for building the
40 * __Certificate for code-signing__: The Heimdal build produces a
41 number of Assemblies that should be signed if they are to be
42 installed via Windows Installer. In addition, all executable
43 binaries produced by the build including installers can be signed
44 and timestamped if a code-signing certificate is available.
46 [1]: http://wix.sourceforge.net/
48 3. Setting up the build environment
49 -----------------------------------
51 * Start with a Windows SDK or Visual Studio build environment. The
52 target platform, OS and build type (debug / release) is determined
53 by the build environment.
55 E.g.: If you are using the Windows SDK, you can use the `SetEnv.Cmd`
56 script to set up a build environment targetting 64-bit Windows XP or
59 SetEnv.Cmd /xp /x64 /Debug
61 The build will produce debug binaries.
63 * Add any directories to `PATH` as necessary so that tools required by
64 the build can be found. The build scripts will check for build
65 tools at the start of the build and will indicate which ones are
66 missing. In general, adding Perl, Python, WiX, HTML Help Compiler and
67 Cygwin binary directories to the path should be sufficient.
69 * Set up environment variables for code signing. This can be done in
70 one of two ways. By specifying options for `signtool` or by
71 specifying the code-signing command directly. To use `signtool`,
72 define `SIGNTOOL_C` and optionally, `SIGNTOOL_O` and `SIGNTOOL_T`.
74 - `SIGNTOOL_C`: Certificate selection and private key selection
75 options for `signtool`.
78 set SIGNTOOL_C=/f c:\mycerts\codesign.pfx
80 - `SIGNTOOL_O`: Signing parameter options for `signtool`. Optional.
83 set SIGNTOOL_O=/du http://example.com/myheimdal
85 - `SIGNTOOL_T`: Timestamp options for `signtool`. If not specified,
86 defaults to `/t http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll`.
88 - `CODESIGN`: Code signer command. This environment variable, if
89 defined, overrides the `SIGNTOOL_*` variables. It should be
90 defined to be a command that takes one parameter: the binary to be
94 set CODESIGN=c:\scripts\mycodesigner.cmd
96 * Define the code sign public key token. This is contained in the
97 environment variable `CODESIGN_PKT` and is needed to build the
98 Heimdal assemblies. If you are not using a code-sign certificate,
99 set this to `0000000000000000`.
101 You can use the `pktextract` tool to determine the public key token
102 corresponding to your code signing certificate as follows (assuming
103 your code signing certificate is in `c:\mycerts\codesign.cer`:
105 pktextract c:\mycerts\codesign.cer
107 The above command will output the certificate name, key size and the
108 public key token. Set the `CODESIGN_PKT` variable to the
109 `publicKeyToken` value (excluding quotes).
112 set CODESIGN_PKT=abcdef0123456789
117 Change the current directory to the root of the Heimdal source tree
122 This should build the binaries, assemblies and the installers.
124 The build can also be invoked from any subdirectory that contains an
125 `NTMakefile` using the same command. Keep in mind that there are
126 inter-dependencies between directories and therefore it is recommended
127 that a full build be invoked from the root of the source tree.
129 Tests can be invoked as:
131 nmake /f NTMakefile test
133 The build tree can be cleaned with:
135 nmake /f NTMakefile clean