• Project files and binaries were upgraded to Visual Studio 2008 (SP1).
• Installer now checks the runtime properly on Windows Vista & Windows 7 Beta, was tested also on Windows XP & 2003. Moreover since Visual Studio 2008 runtime seems to be present by default on many machines, most of you will not need to install it manually at all.
• Installer now contains OpenSSL 0.9.8j, so no more problems with OpenSSL external installation.
• … finally we got all the fixes and features introduced in jabberd2 till the revision #752.

Once you upgrade, you may uninstall Visual Studio 2005 Runtime and OpenSSL using Add/Remove Programs if you have them installed just for older jabberd2 win32 build.

Changes:

• FIX: Setup files were not anymore compatible with latest WiX 3 beta
• FIX: Router failing opening users and filters configuration in Windows
• FIX: Mysql missing crypt is replaced with DES_crypt from OpenSSL in Windows
• NEW: Compressed stream support via zlib
• NEW: Keep server.pem on upgrades
• NEW: Using SubWCRev from TortoiseSVN for version files generation (instead of xsltproc)
• NEW: All configuration files are now generated on build by Perl from generic distribution ones
• NEW: Using udns library for Windows builds too (resolver component was removed)
• UPDATE: Synced config.h with the one from generic builds

All changes are visible as SVN revisions 644-688 in the repository.

Please note new build prerequisites such as udns, zlib, Perl and TortoiseSVN for manual builds.

Fortunately Adium, the great Mac OS X IM client, made me remember, as it was regularly complaining about inability to make a connection to my company XMPP server running jabberd2 Windows version of mine. Also Tomasz Sterna, current maintainer of jabberd2, pointed me some win32 bugfixes hanging on mailing list. So there’s an interest in what I’m doing here! It is alive! Alive!

Going back to the subject, I’ve sat myself for a few (or little more) hours back to Windows and Visual Studio, made latest trunk compile properly in Visual Studio 2005 and finally killed all those annoying bugs that made jabberd2 win32 so unstable. So here it is, you can find brand new build.. working with Adium, and the others I hope. Still you need to remember to install VS2005 and OpenSSL runtimes before running my installer or it gonna fail. I hope I can make it somehow better soon, like having some message popping up about those runtime libraries in the installer.

Also as a side-effect of my work there are Visual Studio 2005 compatible versions of libgsasl and libidn there in the downloads, so hope I did something good for the community and I can sleep well now. Good night.

Now it is fixed in both SVN and downloads of jabberd2 win32. Sorry for the problem, now I hope you can enjoy at last jabberd2 for Windows installer.

It is not yet super-perfect, however it respects upgrades, also it will NOT overwrite your existing jabberd2 configuration nor database files.

Installer running on fresh jabberd2 free system will ask for XMPP domain during setup process and install running jabberd2 configuration using SQLite backend for authentication and storage with registration enabled. After installation remember you need to restart jabber2comp service every time you change comp.xml file (where comp may be s2s, c2s, router, resolver or sm).

Running installer over existing jabberd2 installation will result only with upgrading binary files and writing new *.dist.xml files next to existing *.xml ones.

Have fun with jabberd2! Don’t forget to install Visual C++ 2005 Runtime Libraries prior running the setup.

Several users already confirmed running jabberd2 on Windows server platform with success (I am running it also at my company). And now mu-conference component will be nice addendum to this light XMPP server suite, as together with jabberd2 all takes ~6MB on the disk with no extra software required!

P.S. Windows MSI installer is also on the way. Soon jabberd2 XMPP server installation will be even easier.

I hope this will help to popularize XMPP somehow. I presume that free 3MB setup will be something that everyone can try installing at their office next to MS Exchange server, at least just to put e-mail/XMPP instead of just e-mail in the footer We just need to make Jabber trendy.. heh ?

Normally there are several Windows XMPP servers, most of them are commercial and the freeware or open-source rest is based on Python, Erlang or Java. Those I believe are useful, but I don’t think they are suitable for Windows server deployment mostly because they are bloated with those scripting languages. Sometime I should explain why I don’t like Java for solid development.

While jabberd2 is light and native open-source written in C XMPP server, it doesn’t officially support Windows. Well it states it does, but this support was done somewhere for early versions of 1.4/2.0, but normally there’s no way to compile it on Windows using anything else than Cygwin.

My aim was to get a XMPP server that is small, free.. and not dependent on external libraries. So it is jabberd2 win32. The download is 1.11 MB + VC8 CRT which is 2.55MB, so 3.66 MB all together. No much for such a pretty software, huh ?

I hope someone except me and my co-workers will find this port useful. I hope someday XMPP to get more popular; this is my piece into this idea.