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| author | kali kaneko (leap communications) <kali@leap.se> | 2020-04-23 21:38:57 +0200 |
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| committer | kali kaneko (leap communications) <kali@leap.se> | 2020-04-30 22:10:31 +0200 |
| commit | 3a9f65fb9ccb32e6ef0e3f3c471cc50f1c3ee505 (patch) | |
| tree | 3bc617a3604fb3019d07cdb523f18a0d0fea8d66 | |
| parent | c6a74b63224effd9a7d6b2cda87c38e092b35aa5 (diff) | |
[docs] document cross-compiling quirk
| -rw-r--r-- | pkg/helper/windows.go | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/helper/windows.go b/pkg/helper/windows.go index 0962fef..08b01aa 100644 --- a/pkg/helper/windows.go +++ b/pkg/helper/windows.go @@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ var ( httpServerConf = &httpConf{} ) +// parseCliArgs allows the helper binary to install/uninstall itself. It requires admin privileges. +// However, be warned: if you intend to use it from the command line, you will have to compile it with the Go compiler yourself. +// the version we're shipping (ie, cross-compiled with the mingw compiler) apparently is not able to output to stdout/stderr properly. +// To compile a usable version, from the top of the repo you can do: +// "cd cmd/bitmask-helper && GOOS=windows GOARCH=i386 go build" func parseCliArgs() { log.Println("Parsing CLI args...") isIntSess, err := svc.IsAnInteractiveSession() @@ -73,10 +78,12 @@ func parseCliArgs() { log.Println("cmd:", cmd) switch cmd { case "debug": + // run the service on the foreground, for debugging runService(svcName, true) return case "install": - // TODO get binary name + // TODO get binary name -- or maybe not, since in this way we make sure + // that all bitmask-vpn brandings are mutually exclusive. err = installService(svcName, "bitmask-helper service") case "remove": err = removeService(svcName) |