Socat compiled for Windows 10 x64

Overview

Socat binary compiled with Cygwin gcc on Windows 10. I’ve included zip of the socat.exe and required dlls for convenience but…

Concise Compilation Instruction

For those who do not trust random binary blobs on the internet (like me).

• Install Cygwin
• Install following packages on Cygwin (fortran, objc, and objc++ may not need needed):
  • gcc-core
  • gcc-fortran
  • gcc-g++
  • gcc-objc
  • gcc-objc++
  • libkrb5-devel
  • libkrb5_3
  • libreadline-devel
  • libssl-devel
  • libwrap-devel
  • make
  • tcp_wrappers
• Download socat source from http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/

tar -xvzf socat-<version>.tar.gz
cd socat-<version>
./configure
make
make install

Compiled Features

$ socat -V
socat by Gerhard Rieger and contributors - see www.dest-unreach.org
socat version 1.7.4.1 on Feb 11 2021 06:09:59
   running on CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19042 version 2020-08-22 17:48 UTC, release 3.1.7-340.x86_64, machine x86_64
features:
  #define WITH_STDIO 1
  #define WITH_FDNUM 1
  #define WITH_FILE 1
  #define WITH_CREAT 1
  #define WITH_GOPEN 1
  #define WITH_TERMIOS 1
  #define WITH_PIPE 1
  #define WITH_UNIX 1
  #undef WITH_ABSTRACT_UNIXSOCKET
  #define WITH_IP4 1
  #define WITH_IP6 1
  #define WITH_RAWIP 1
  #define WITH_GENERICSOCKET 1
  #undef WITH_INTERFACE
  #define WITH_TCP 1
  #define WITH_UDP 1
  #undef WITH_SCTP
  #define WITH_LISTEN 1
  #define WITH_SOCKS4 1
  #define WITH_SOCKS4A 1
  #undef WITH_VSOCK
  #define WITH_PROXY 1
  #define WITH_SYSTEM 1
  #define WITH_EXEC 1
  #define WITH_READLINE 1
  #undef WITH_TUN
  #define WITH_PTY 1
  #define WITH_OPENSSL 1
  #undef WITH_FIPS
  #define WITH_LIBWRAP 1
  #define WITH_SYCLS 1
  #define WITH_FILAN 1
  #define WITH_RETRY 1
  #define WITH_MSGLEVEL 0 /*debug*/