Libimobiledevice: Unable to compile for Windows

[anshumanchatterji]

I tried compiling libimobiledevice & its dependancies using both cygwin and MinGW. After solving all the issues, I was able to create the windows executables. However, for both the environments(Cygwin & MinGW) I encontered the same error:

./idevice_id -l
socket_connect: getaddrinfo: Unknown error
ERROR: Unable to retrieve device list!

Same error was also reported here https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/783

Is there some writeup for compiling in windows that i can follow? Below is the compilation of various steps that i followed:

Install MSys2
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26453293/what-is-the-best-way-to-install-pkg-config-on-mingw-in-2014
https://www.msys2.org/

Install MinGW
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS
Set bin folder to environemnt variables in windows

Build libplist
./autogen.sh
make
make install
(I remember getting python errors, so had to install --without-cython)

Build usbmuxd
./autogen.sh
make
make install

Install GNUTLS as unable to find openssl dev libs
https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/617
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gnutls
pacman -S gnutls
pacman -S libgnutls
pacman -S openssl
pacman -S libopenssl
pacman -S openssl-devel

Install libcrypt
pacman -S libgcrypt-devel

Build
./autogen.sh --without-cython --disable-openssl
make
make install

[mexmer]

use msys2, don't use cygwin or mingw. i mentioned that in linked issue.

tbh. i have no idea if mingw/cygwin are just outdated, or their stack simply doesn't work on windows 10 1809/1903, but msys2 works.

[anshumanchatterji]

@mexmer I had indeed used the MSys2 terminal. Do i need to remove mingw and retry building on Msys2 terminal from scratch?

[anshumanchatterji]

I was able to compile with MSys2 with OpenSSL.

This might help someone else:

Install MSys2
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26453293/what-is-the-best-way-to-install-pkg-config-on-mingw-in-2014
https://www.msys2.org/

Build libplist
git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist.git
(I remember getting python errors, so had to install --without-cython)
./autogen.sh --without-cython
make
make install

Build libusb
git clone https://github.com/libusb/libusb.git
./autogen
make
make install

Build libusbmuxd
git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libusbmuxd.git
./autogen.sh
make
make install

Install libcrypt
pacman -S libgcrypt-devel

With OpenSSL support which is by default:
pacman -S openssl
pacman -S libopenssl
pacman -S openssl-devel

Install GNUTLS if unable to find openssl dev libs
https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/617
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gnutls
pacman -S gnutls
pacman -S libgnutls
pacman -S libgnutls-devel

Build libimobiledevice
git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice.git
_// With OpenSSL_
./autogen.sh --without-cython
_// With GNU TLS_
./autogen.sh --without-cython --disable-openssl
make
make install

[igor84]

This is the list of things I had to install in order to build everything above without python issues:

pacman -S git
pacman -S libedit
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain
pacman -S --needed base-devel msys2-devel
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python
pacman -S msys/libcrypt-devel
pacman -S openssl
pacman -S libopenssl
pacman -S openssl-devel

In order to also build https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ideviceinstaller I had to do the following as well:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-libzip
cp /mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/libzip.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
// Delete the line containing invalid D:/msys64 path from copied libzip.pc
sed -i '/-lD:\/msys64/d' /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libzip.pc
git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ideviceinstaller.git
cd ideviceinstaller
// Remove switch to threat warnings as errors since there are some warnings
sed -i 's/ -Werror//g' configure.ac
./autogen.sh
make
makeinstall

[winstondu]

@anshumanchatterji , once you build the project, how do you use it as a library when you develop your own program?