tor-parallel-relay-conn/doc/tor-win32-mingw-creation.txt

Instructions for building Tor with MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/)

Stage One:  Download and Install MinGW.
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Download mingw:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe?download

Download the mingw developer tool kit:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe?download

Install mingw and mingw-dtk.

Stage Two: Download, extract, and patch libevent-1.1b.
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Download libevent-1.1b:
http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/

Start up MSYS:
Start -> Programs -> MinGW -> MSYS -> msys

Create a directory to work within, for example, /c/tor-mingw.

Copy libevent and tor tarballs into this working dir:
cp /path/to/libevent-1.1b.tar.gz /c/tor-mingw/
cp /patch/to/tor-alpha.tar.gz /c/tor-mingw/
cd /c/tor-mingw/

Extract libevent: tar zxf libevent-1.1b.tar.gz
Extract tor: tar zxf tor-alpha.tar.gz

Copy the libevent-1.1b diff into libevent-1.1b:
cp /c/tor-mingw/tor/Win32Build/mingw/libevent-1.1b-mingw-custom.diff /c/tor-mingw/libevent-1.1b/
patch -i libevent-1.1b-mingw-custom.diff

Your output of the "patch" command should be similar to:
"patch -i libevent-1.1b-mingw-custom.diff 
patching file `Makefile.am'
can't find file to patch at input line 49
Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|Only in libevent-1.1b: Makefile.in
|diff -uwr libevent-1.1b-old/WIN32-Code/misc.c libevent-1.1b/WIN32-Code/misc.c
|--- libevent-1.1b-old/WIN32-Code/misc.c        Wed Aug  9 21:01:14 2006
|+++ libevent-1.1b/WIN32-Code/misc.c    Fri Sep  1 22:21:31 2006
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File to patch: WIN32-Code/misc.c
patching file `WIN32-Code/misc.c'
can't find file to patch at input line 65
Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|diff -uwr libevent-1.1b-old/WIN32-Code/misc.h libevent-1.1b/WIN32-Code/misc.h
|--- libevent-1.1b-old/WIN32-Code/misc.h        Wed Aug  9 21:01:14 2006
|+++ libevent-1.1b/WIN32-Code/misc.h    Fri Sep  1 18:47:09 2006
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File to patch: WIN32-Code/misc.h
patching file `WIN32-Code/misc.h'
can't find file to patch at input line 78
Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|diff -uwr libevent-1.1b-old/WIN32-Code/win32.c
libevent-1.1b/WIN32-Code/win32.c
|--- libevent-1.1b-old/WIN32-Code/win32.c       Wed Aug  9 21:25:48 2006
|+++ libevent-1.1b/WIN32-Code/win32.c   Sat Sep  2 00:45:55 2006
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File to patch: WIN32-Code/win32.c
patching file `WIN32-Code/win32.c'
patching file `buffer.c'
patching file `config.h.in'
patching file `configure.in'
patching file `evbuffer.c'
patching file `event.c'
patching file `log.c' "

Stage 3:  Build libevent-1.1b DLL
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Run "aclocal && autoheader && automake && autoconf".
There may be WARNING messages.  There will be no output if all runs successfuly.

Run "./configure"
Run "make"

(magic happens here and a complete tor-alpha.exe is created)