[Box Backup] Win32 Issues

[Peter Porter]

I've tried the Windows native client with the same lack of avail.  I get 
a handshake error,  and I am certain that the certificates and key used 
are the same.  My session looks like this:

  server01 box3 $ ./bbackupquery.exe -c bbackupd.conf
  Box Backup Query Tool v0.10_rc0.1_win32, (c) Ben Summers 2003, 2004
  Using configuration file bbackupd.conf
  Connecting to store...
  Handshake with store...
  Exception: Connection Protocol_HandshakeFailed (7/48)
  No random device -- additional seeding of random number generator not 
performed.

What unit tests fail on Cygwin?  It seems as though bbackupquery works, 
it simply has a problem reading from the console.  If I provide commands 
as arguments, I can see that they've executed.

Doesn't a build on Cygwin with MinGW result in the native Win32 build?  
I built following the instructions in 
"win32_build_on_cygwin_using_mingw.txt", it would seem to me that I am 
building the native Win32 client.  When I try to do a standard configure 
and build under Cygwin, I get errors that it cannot determine mount 
points on my system.

-Peter


Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
>> I've been using BoxBackup happily for a few years now, and recently 
>> upgraded my server to v0.10 from v0.09 (thanks to an 'emerge -vu 
>> world' on Gentoo without noticing the Box version change).  I've 
>> never had a problem building on a Linux system.  I rebuilt Linux 
>> clients with v0.10 and they all work fine.
>>
>> I was previously running v0.09 win32 binaries without a problem, but 
>> I'm having issues compiling in Cygwin with the new v0.10 binaries -- 
>> and moving to another server.
>
> Sorry, but I don't think BB 0.10 works properly on Cygwin. A number of 
> the unit tests fail.
>
> Please consider using the Windows native client, which you can find at 
> [http://boxbackup.hostworks.ca/index.php/0.10#Windows_Client].
>
> You will probably have to change your configuration file, since all 
> paths should use "\" as the path separator, and "/cygdrive/c" should 
> be changed to "C:\".
>
> Cheers, Chris.


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