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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:00:43 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: JtR homepage update; Windows builds

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 02:27:58PM +0530, Dhiru Kholia wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.  Is it possible to do Cygwin builds using that infrastructure?

> 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.

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

OK.  I've just removed the link from JtR homepage.

Alexander

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