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+# Building guacamole-server for Windows
+The `guacamole-server` Windows build relies on compatibility features provided by Cygwin (most notably, a `fork()` implmentation), and therefore _must_ be built using Cygwin tools. Since no Cygwin cross-compilation environment exists, this means that `guacamole-server` can only be built for Windows using the Windows OS. This document describes a build that produces a working `guacd.exe`, as well as shared libraries for every supported protocol.
+
+## Build Specifics
+In this example, `guacamole-server` was built under Cygwin, on a Windows Server 2022 x86_64 build node. Dependencies were installed using packages from Cygwin and MSYS2 (and built from source where no package is available, in the case of `libtelnet`).
+
+### Build Steps
+1. Install Cygwin (version 2.926 used here)
+2. Install MSYS2 (version 20230718 used here)
+3. Install Cygwin packages:
+    * git
+    * make
+    * automake
+    * autoconf
+    * gcc-core
+    * libtool
+    * pkg-config
+    * libuuid-devel
+    * libwinpr2-devel
+    * libfreerdp2-devel
+4. Install MSYS2 packages:
+    * autoconf-wrapper
+    * automake-wrapper
+    * diffutils
+    * make
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-cairo
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-pango
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-libwebsockets
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-libvncserver
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-libssh2
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-libtool
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-libmariadbclient
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-postgresql
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-libpng
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-libjpeg
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-dlfcn
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-pulseaudio
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-libvorbis
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-libwebp
+    * mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib
+5. Build `libtelnet` from source using MSYS2 bash shell
+    ```
+    curl -s -L https://github.com/seanmiddleditch/libtelnet/releases/download/0.23/libtelnet-0.23.tar.gz | tar xz
+    cd libtelnet-0.23
+
+    autoreconf -fi
+    ./configure --disable-static --disable-util LDFLAGS="-Wl,-no-undefined"
+
+    make LDFLAGS="-no-undefined"
+    make install
+
+    # Required for the Cygwin build to understand how to link against this DLL
+    ln -s /usr/bin/msys-telnet-2.dll /usr/bin/libtelnet.dll
+    ```
+6. Build `guacamole-server` from source using Cygwin bash shell
+    ```
+    # FIXME: Update this to check out master once this PR is ready for merge
+    git clone https://github.com/jmuehlner/guacamole-server.git
+    cd guacamole-server
+    git checkout GUACAMOLE-1841-cygwin-build
+
+    autoreconf -fi
+    export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/bin/ -L/usr/lib/ -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/bin -L/cygdrive/c/msys64/mingw64/bin -L/cygdrive/c/msys64/mingw64/lib -L/cygdrive/c/msys64/usr/bin"
+    export CFLAGS="-idirafter /cygdrive/c/msys64/mingw64/include/winpr2 -idirafter /usr/include/ -idirafter /cygdrive/c/msys64/mingw64/include -idirafter /cygdrive/c/msys64/mingw64/include/pango-1.0 -idirafter /cygdrive/c/msys64/mingw64/include/cairo -idirafter /cygdrive/c/msys64/mingw64/include/freerdp2 -idirafter /cygdrive/c/msys64/mingw64/include/glib-2.0 -idirafter /cygdrive/c/msys64/mingw64/include/harfbuzz -idirafter /cygdrive/c/msys64/mingw64/lib/glib-2.0/include -idirafter /cygdrive/c/msys64/usr/include"
+    export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/cygdrive/c/msys64/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/"
+
+    # NOTE: The libfreerdp2-devel package provided by Cygwin is detected as a snapshot version, and must be explicitly allowed
+    ./configure --with-cygwin --enable-allow-freerdp-snapshots || cat config.log
+
+    make
+    ```
+
+## Closing Notes
+The generated `guacd.exe` will run as expected when invoked from the Cygwin bash shell, but when run outside of a Cygwin environment (e.g. using powershell), connections using text-based protocols (ssh, telnet, kubernetes) will fail with `Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file`.
+
+FIXME: Update this document to explain how to configure fonts under Windows once I figure it out.
+
+In addition, to enable running `guacd.exe` outside of a Cygwin environment, all (non-system) DLLs that it depends on should be copied into the same directory as the executable. These can be found by running `ldd` in the Cygwin bash shell - e.g.
+```
+ldd /usr/local/sbin/guacd.exe
+find /usr -name '*guac*.dll' | xargs ldd
+```