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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 14:27:58 +0530
From: Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: JtR homepage update; Windows builds

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:41 PM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> Latest development build for Windows, updated automatically (ZIP)
>
> pointing to:
>
> http://daily-builds.appspot.com/latest

The code behind this site is at https://github.com/kholia/daily-builds URL.

> Since I wasn't involved in the setup of the latter, I'd like to know who
> was (magnum?) and how/where the builds are done.  I notice they're with
> MinGW rather than Cygwin - do we consider this reliable, complete enough,
> and recommended for use?  I guess it doesn't include OpenCL support,
> does it?  What about OpenMP and "--fork"?  Other features?

The builds are done on infrastructure provided by
https://circleci.com/ and the CircleCI configuration resides in
"circle.yml" file in the JtR jumbo repository.

See https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/issues/1378 for more
details about the setup.

OpenMP is supported in these builds. However, the builds are not 100%
reliable. I just found out that the builds do not run on Windows 10
at all.

Some of the issues are documented in the following links,

https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/issues/2083 (zip2john crash)

https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/issues/1449 (Ctrl+C crash)

https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/issues/1378 (various
format crashes)

I don't think that anyone is actively working on fixing these issues.
So these builds should not be considered fit for users yet.

Dhiru

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