[OTR-users] otrproxy port-locked

[Conrad Meyer]

On Thursday 29 January 2009 03:17:41 pm Ian Goldberg wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:33:10PM -0500, Tree wrote:
> > Hi. I'm trying to run otrproxy on a network that blocks port 5190. AIM
> > actually works on just about any port, so I'm trying to get rid of the
> > port-checking code in otrproxy.
> >
> > I have been trying to build otrproxy under cygwin, but I keep running
> > into errors. :(
> >
> > Any suggestions? Thanks
>
> We built the windows version of otrproxy with the mingw compiler, not
> cygwin.  And we actually did it on a Linux box, cross-compiling for
> Windows.  And no one's looked at that code for years.  So I'm afraid I'm
> at a loss to help, unfortunately.  :-(
>
> [There's always the possibility of using a debugger/disassembler to find
> where in the binary the check for port 5190 is being done, and NOP it
> out.  But that's me channelling my Apple ][ days.  :-p ]
>
>    - Ian

Or someone could change the source and rebuild it for windows.

-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>