Riccardo Spagni
README for Unbound on Windows. (C) 2009, W.C.A. Wijngaards, NLnet Labs. See LICENSE for the license text file. +++ Introduction Unbound is a recursive DNS server. It does caching, full recursion, stub recursion, DNSSEC validation, NSEC3, IPv6. More information can be found at the http://unbound.net site. Unbound has been built and tested on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8. At http://unbound.net/documentation is an install and configuration manual for windows. email: unbound-bugs@nlnetlabs.nl +++ How to use it In ControlPanels\SystemTasks\Services you can start/stop the daemon. In ControlPanels\SystemTasks\Logbooks you can see log entries (unless you configured unbound to log to file). By default the daemon provides service only to localhost. See the manual on how to change that (you need to edit the config file). To change options, edit the service.conf file. The example.conf file contains information on the various configuration options. The config file is the same as on Unix. The options log-time-ascii, chroot, username and pidfile are not supported on windows. +++ How to compile Unbound is open source under the BSD license. You can compile it yourself. 1. Install MinGW and MSYS. http://www.mingw.org This is a free, open source, compiler and build environment. Note, if your username contains a space, create a directory C:\msys\...\home\user to work in (click on MSYS; type: mkdir /home/user ). 2. Install openssl, or compile it yourself. http://www.openssl.org Unbounds need the header files and libraries. Static linking makes things easier. This is an open source library for cryptographic functions. And libexpat is needed. 3. Compile Unbound Get the source code tarball http://unbound.net Move it into the C:\msys\...\home\user directory. Double click on the MSYS icon and give these commands $ cd /home/user $ tar xzvf unbound-xxx.tar.gz $ cd unbound-xxx $ ./configure --enable-static-exe If you compiled openssl yourself, pass --with-ssl=../openssl-xxx too. If you compiled libexpat yourself, pass --with-libexpat=../expat-install too. The configure options for libevent or threads are not applicable for windows, because builtin alternatives for the windows platform are used. $ make And you have unbound.exe If you run unbound-service-install.exe (double click in the explorer), unbound is installed as a service in the controlpanels\systemtasks\services, from the current directory. unbound-service-remove.exe uninstalls the service. Unbound and its utilities also work from the commandline (like on unix) if you prefer. +++ Cross compile You can crosscompile unbound. This results in .exe files. Install the packages: mingw32-binutils mingw32-cpp mingw32-filesystem mingw32-gcc mingw32-openssl mingw32-openssl-static mingw32-runtime zip mingw32-termcap mingw32-w32api mingw32-zlib mingw32-zlib-static mingw32-nsis (package names for fedora 11). For dynamic linked executables $ mingw32-configure $ make $ mkdir /home/user/installdir $ make install DESTDIR=/home/user/installdir Find the dlls and exes in /home/user/installdir and crypto in /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin For static linked executables Use --enable-staticexe for mingw32-configure, see above. Or use makedist.sh, copy System.dll from the windows dist of NSIS to /usr/share/nsis/Plugins/ Then do ./makedist.sh -w and the setup.exe is created using nsis. +++ CREDITS Unbound was written in portable C by Wouter Wijngaards (NLnet Labs). See the CREDITS file in the source package for more contributor information. Email unbound-bugs@nlnetlabs.nl