Copyright 2007-2008, Andrew Lewman Copyright 2009-2011, The Tor Project ---------------- General Comments ---------------- These are some hacks for making polipo work and install a package native to Windows. They need some work before they can be committed upstream: - Change the Makefile so it has a specific build such as "make dist-win32" - Configure the options for tor in polipo config, just leave them commented out for easy activation. - Work out better polipo config options for Tor. As always, I'm happy to accept patches. -------------------------- Pre-requisites for Windows -------------------------- Polipo for Win32 requires the mingw gnu regex library and dlls at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=73286&release_id=140957 You'll need to download the -bin and -dev tarballs. And extract them into your MinGW directory. Instructions for building polipo under mingw32 for Windows: 1) Copy Makefile.mingw over Makefile. 2) Run 'make'. You should have a polipo.exe in the current directory. ------------------------------------------- Creating an installation package in Windows ------------------------------------------- If you want to build an installer using the Nullsoft Installer, install the NSI Compiler. In Windows Explorer, navigate to the directory in which you placed polipo-mingw.nsi. Right click on polipo-mingw.nsi and choose Compile NSIS Script. You'll then create a polipo installer. The Polipo NSI installer assumes libgnurx-0.dll is in the same directory as polipo.exe. You'll need to copy libgnurx-0.dll into "./" in order to make the installation package.