Many thanks for your files and instructions. I integrated this into the official elog pipeline, so now the RPMs can be downloaded from https://elog.psi.ch/elog/download.html and they will be updated automatically after each commit. If you succeed with any Debian/Ubunto I'm happy to add that. What's missing now is an easy way to compile for Windows (which I don't have anymore).

Stefan

+1 for a Windows pipeline!

Hi Stefan,

Nice to have up to date RPMs.

For .DEB, I contact the Ubuntu maintainer for its build script, and cool, he replied that he's searching for it. That's could help me to generate the deb more rapidly...

For Windows target, It's supported in Bitbucket but only with private agent :-(

So I tried to build using docker hub MSVC image (abrarov/msvc-2019) but pipeline fails to retrieve the image. Maybe I need to swipe on alternative images, or these images with MS software are unaccepted from Atlassian...

Also, I tried to crosscompiling ELOG Win32 from Linux with g++-mingw-w64-x86-64, but Makefile/sources need to be patched to manage this 'platform'... For the moment, it fails. :-(

Next solution : use Wine in Debian image to build Elog with mingwin as I know that it works (under Windows :-)). Will be tested after all...

.

Laurent

Many thanks for all your efforts!

For Windows it's more than just getting the .exe. Users want an installer. I used the Nullsoft Scriptable Installer (NSI), but I have no clue if this still works today. But there is still the elog.nsi script in the repository. Next, users want elogd as a service running in the background as a "service". I'm pretty sure the old way of doing that has changed and one would at least have to test this. Unfortunatley I switched to MacOSX about ten years ago (actually most of ELOG has been developed under Windows, but these days are gone), so I'm kind of illiterate in the Windows world now and don't have any time to change that.

Stefan

Hi Team,

Current configuration

=================

OS: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

ELOG version: elog/jammy,now 3.1.3-1-1build2 amd64 [installed]

Installation method: apt install elog

Configuration file: /etc/elogd.cfg

LOGBOOKDIR= /var/lib/elog/logbooks}
RESOURCEDIR= /usr/share/elog

I had an ELOG server set up in the Windows server which is authenticated using a Password file. Recently, I have migrated the ELOG server to the Ubuntu server. I installed ELOG from the Ubuntu repository (apt install elog) and copied over the logbook and configuration file from the windows server to the new Ubuntu server. In the server, the configuration file was set to /etc/elog.conf by default. I have modified the init file and set the configuration file to /etc/elogd.cfg (this conf file is copied from the Windows server) which includes all the settings. After moving to the Ubuntu server I would like to authenticate users using the password file and LDAP. Could someone help me how to configure LDAP in my installation style?

The global configuration that is found on my installation is as follows:

###################################

; Global settings

Password file = elog.pwd
Self register = 1
Admin user = a, b,c, d, e, Iafdsel

Suppress Email to users = 1
SMTP host = example.com

Time format = %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S
Date format = %Y-%m-%d

Restrict edit time = 2
Restrict edit = 1

Allow HTML = 1
Max content length = 209715200
Save drafts = 0
###################################

Should I add the below modification (by editing the necessary fields) to the current configuration? Will that make the LDAP and normal password file work?

############################

• Enable LDAP authentication in the Makefile by setting USE_LDAP = 1   (I am not sure if I need to do this in my installation style. If yes, how do i do this?)

• Authentication = LDAP
• LDAP server = ldap://example.org:389
• LDAP userbase = ou=People;dc=example,dc=org
• LDAP login attribute = uid
• LDAP register = 1

​############################
 

Can someone guide me on what changes I need to make for this?

Many Thanks,
Scott

Elogd for windows has an option -install which normally does it. Is it working on last Windows version (or the one enclosed in elog:Forum/69664) ?

If Yes, a simple install-as-a-service.bat can be added to archive :-)

.

Laurent

Hi Stefan,

Some updates for Windows version.

I spent last WE to try to build ELOG on Windows from MSVCODE, MSCV, crosschain tool under linux etc, but in vain.

ELOG MSVC projects file are obsolete for last MS C++, and after migration, so much error or missing libs for SSL/Ldap/krb5 which should be built... I drop the sponge :-P

With mingw64 under Linux (docker/Debian), the code has also to be updated (C++11), but I don't get a build after all (also libs missing and must be built).

Finally, I can build Windows version from Windows with CygWin gcc-c++ as I did in the past. All the dependencies are available from CygWin installer. I got problems with strlcpy file missing, need to drop inlcude from elog.c and elogd.h as mxml doesn't include it anymore...

I find a Win64 CI/CD solution on AppVeyor which is free for OSS project. After creating account and add link to my ELOG test Bitbucket repo, ad new files (appveyor.yml, buildming script, update NSIS script for CygWin DDL, add tool for service), it builds automatically an elog-ver-release.exe artifact : (current build from GIT with SSL/LDAP/KRB5 available on month up to March 3, 2024 : https://ci.appveyor.com/api/buildjobs/logp7r8f0kcjq9pp/artifacts/elog-3.1.5-a720145.exe)

I installed this NSIS bundle on my PC and it's starting fine as a service.

The link info from EXE :

$ ldd /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/ELOG/elogd.exe
        ntdll.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll (0x7ffdb1fb0000)
        KERNEL32.DLL => /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/KERNEL32.DLL (0x7ffdb0dc0000)
        KERNELBASE.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/KERNELBASE.dll (0x7ffdaf950000)
        cygwin1.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygwin1.dll (0x7ffcedc30000)
        cygkrb5-3.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygkrb5-3.dll (0x3fe0a0000)
        cyglber-2.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cyglber-2.dll (0x3fe040000)
        cygldap-2.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygldap-2.dll (0x3fdf20000)
        cygssl-3.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygssl-3.dll (0x3fd0d0000)
        cyggcc_s-seh-1.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cyggcc_s-seh-1.dll (0x3ff1d0000)
        cygstdc++-6.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygstdc++-6.dll (0x3fcee0000)
        cygk5crypto-3.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygk5crypto-3.dll (0x3fe170000)
        cygkrb5support-0.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygkrb5support-0.dll (0x3fe080000)
        cygcom_err-2.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygcom_err-2.dll (0x3ffe90000)
        cygintl-8.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygintl-8.dll (0x3fe450000)
        cygcrypto-1.1.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygcrypto-1.1.dll (0x3ffbc0000)
        cygsasl2-3.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygsasl2-3.dll (0x3fd3e0000)
        cygssl-1.1.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygssl-1.1.dll (0x3fd170000)
        cygcrypto-3.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygcrypto-3.dll (0x3ff800000)
        cygiconv-2.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygiconv-2.dll (0x3fe540000)
        cygz.dll => /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ELOG/cygz.dll (0x3fc790000)

I will send you the files/patchs if AppVeyor could be used for Windows CI/CD in your project.

Bye,

Laurent

NB: the AppVeyor build log enclosed, need some cleanup...