availability of windows releases

[ahill-rejectShop]

It would be nice if prebuilt windows binaries were available - https://sourceforge.net/projects/cntlm/files/cntlm/ hasn't been updated since 2012.

[fralken]

Hello @ahill-rejectShop, in my fork I created a release also for Windows, a couple of years ago. You can try it and let me know if it works for you.

[jschwartzenberg]

It seems that version is using Cygwin, which is relatively easy to build oneself, but when I tried it seemed to have quite a significant performance bottleneck.

I think having the non-Cygwin builds (from the pipeline) would be better.

[fralken]

Cygwin is a compatibility layer for linux programs on windows. You can compile and run the same source code on linux (and mac) and windows. Not using it would mean rewrite all the multihtreading logic using native windows apis. A non trivial effort.
That's why the original author chose to build the windows version against cygwin.

[jschwartzenberg]

I'm familiar with Cygwin, but I was also remembering that the CI was doing builds with Microsoft's compiler. I guess I misremember...

Maybe the thread spawning is why the Cygwin build seemed so slow on my environment.