- When building on Windows XP using Visual Studio 2008, I encountered the following issue.
- I did a fresh install of Windows XP SP3 32-bit, then applied updates including .NET 3.5. Next I installed MS Visual Studio 2008, then updated with sp1. All of this according to the documentation in your readme for building on Windows.
- In file src/BuildUtils/VpnBuilder.cs, there are two "if" statements testing the same thing, which is to determine if it is a 32-bit or 64-bit machine/compiler. But the then and else clauses are reversed, so clearly, one of them is wrong. The result I saw is that the SDK path being used to run RC.exe is left as the NULL string and so it fails to run the RC.exe program.
- This happens early in the build process, building the build utils. The two "if" statements are used to set paths for the Visual Studio VC and SDK directories. Depending on the integer pointer size, it uses different paths in the registry.
- When I looked in the registry on my Windows XP machine, there is no key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node, I have only seen that on 64-bit machines.
- For the fix, I consolidated the two "if" statements into one, the existing statement on line 380 would only set a value for Paths.VisualStudioVCDir (which got set correctly). Now I moved the code for also setting Paths.MicrosoftSDKDir, while reversing the values from the incorrectly coded "if" statement.
- I can understand that under certain circumstances, this issue would not be encountered, but should be easily reproducible when installing a clean system.
error: cannot initialize a variable of type 'wchar_t *' with an lvalue of type 'const wchar_t [4]'
wchar_t *protocol_str = (udp ? L"UDP" : L"TCP");
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The "session created" and "session deleted" messages were useful when a single OPENVPN_SERVER object handled multiple UDP sessions.
Now that each session has its own OPENVPN_SERVER object and session creations/deletions are logged by PROTO, the messages are redundant.
In future we will change the OpenVPN implementation so that the multi-session handling code is deleted.
The messages were like this:
OpenVPN Module: The OpenVPN Server Module is starting.
OpenVPN Session 1 (192.168.122.211:47390 -> 0.0.0.0:1194): A new session is created. Protocol: UDP
OpenVPN Session 1 (192.168.122.211:47390 -> 0.0.0.0:1194): Deleting the session.
OpenVPN Module: The OpenVPN Server Module is stopped.
ProtoHandleDatagrams() takes care of deleting a session if marked as halted.
However, the check is performed when a packet for that session is received; that never happens if the remote host doesn't send at least a packet.
This commit fixes the issue by moving the check into the loop that iterates through all sessions.
ProtoOptionsGet command - Lists the options for the specified protocol
Help for command "ProtoOptionsGet"
Purpose:
Lists the options for the specified protocol
Description:
This command can be used to retrieve the options for a specific protocol.
Detailed info (e.g. value type) will be shown.
You can change an option's value with the ProtoOptionsSet command.
Usage:
ProtoOptionsGet [protocol]
Parameters:
protocol - Protocol name.
ProtoOptionsSet command - Sets an option's value for the specified protocol
Help for command "ProtoOptionsSet"
Purpose:
Sets an option's value for the specified protocol
Description:
This command can be used to change an option's value for a specific protocol.
You can retrieve the options using the ProtoOptionsGet command.
To execute this command, you must have VPN Server administrator privileges.
Usage:
ProtoOptionsSet [protocol] [/NAME:option_name] [/VALUE:string/true/false]
Parameters:
protocol - Protocol name.
/NAME - Option name.
/VALUE - Option value. Make sure to write a value that is accepted by the specified protocol!
PROTO_OPTION is a structure that describes an option (who would've guessed?).
It's designed in a way that allows it to occupy as low memory as possible, while providing great flexibility.
The idea is similar to the one implemented in LIST for trivial types, with the difference that PROTO_OPTION doesn't require casting due to the use of union.
AppVeyor provides vcpkg and a great guide explaining how to use it and cache the installed packages: https://www.appveyor.com/docs/lang/cpp/#vc-packaging-tool
However, we're currently relying on Azure Pipelines for the Windows builds and keeping one on AppVeyor would be a waste of CI resources.
