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    • EkopalypseE
      Ekopalypse @andrecool-68
      last edited by

      @andrecool-68

      Please keep in mind that I’m not really a C++ developer. I just have started investigating this language a few weeks ago. So treat my answers with skeptic.

      Depending on your VS project you either build x86 or x64 binaries and depending on that configuration VS would grab the one or the other boost::regex library as long as
      the libs can be found.

      Concerning the “Authenticode check failed” issue,
      as far as I understood, a npp debug build can be created without a signed scintilla dll but release builds are checking for signed dlls.
      Source is this.

      You either can change the code to isOK = true; or you create your own certificates.
      But how creating a singend scintilla is done I haven’t investigated yet. Not sure I ever will.

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      • andrecool-68A
        andrecool-68
        last edited by

        @Ekopalypse
        To build SciLexer.dll x64 I used x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017
        I now have two files:
        x32 SciLexer.dll ~ 1.22 mb
        x64 SciLexer.dll ~ 1.73 mb

        It remains to understand how to pee this “nasty” certificate)))

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        • EkopalypseE
          Ekopalypse @andrecool-68
          last edited by

          @andrecool-68

          Does this mean you haven’t used Visual Studio 2017 to build notepad++ at all?
          Did you only build scintilla dll and copied it into an existing npp installation?

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          • andrecool-68A
            andrecool-68 @Ekopalypse
            last edited by

            @Ekopalypse
            Notepad ++ was compiled from the last project of the author. Build release gives certificate error.

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            • andrecool-68A
              andrecool-68 @Ekopalypse
              last edited by

              @Ekopalypse The debug build works without a certificate error))

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              • EkopalypseE
                Ekopalypse @andrecool-68
                last edited by

                @andrecool-68

                Yes, great - that is expected

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                • andrecool-68A
                  andrecool-68 @Ekopalypse
                  last edited by

                  @Ekopalypse The author himself will add a signature to the next build project … did I understand you correctly?

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                  • EkopalypseE
                    Ekopalypse @andrecool-68
                    last edited by Ekopalypse

                    @andrecool-68

                    Yes, if you refer to the release build.
                    Debug builds will never have such a signature to allow code contributors to easily test there changes/modifications. That’s my understanding.

                    Edit: With release build I mean the binaries delivered by either the installation or a portable zip.

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                    • EkopalypseE
                      Ekopalypse @andrecool-68
                      last edited by

                      @andrecool-68

                      My lunch break is over - I will follow up later today.

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                      • andrecool-68A
                        andrecool-68 @Ekopalypse
                        last edited by

                        @Ekopalypse Discussio mater veritas est

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                        • EkopalypseE
                          Ekopalypse @andrecool-68
                          last edited by

                          @andrecool-68 or better In vino veritas :-D

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                          • EkopalypseE
                            Ekopalypse @andrecool-68
                            last edited by

                            @andrecool-68
                            I found this commit and it looks like that this is the area
                            where one would need to hack around to create its own key but as said, I don’t really know how this certificates stuff work, yet.

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                            • andrecool-68A
                              andrecool-68 @Ekopalypse
                              last edited by

                              @Ekopalypse

                              Interesting things, there is a GPG public key
                              https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/nppGpgPub.asc
                              But after building projects SciLexer.dll and notepad ++.exe

                              When starting notepad ++.exe an error appears
                              Authenticode check failed: signing certificate or hash is not recognized

                              Where is the truth hiding?

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                              • andrecool-68A
                                andrecool-68
                                last edited by

                                Maybe I have some components missing in Visual Studio 2017?

                                {
                                	"version": "1.0",
                                	"components": [
                                		"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop",
                                		"microsoft.visualstudio.component.vc.cmake.project",
                                		"microsoft.visualstudio.componentgroup.nativedesktop.win81",
                                		"microsoft.visualstudio.componentgroup.nativedesktop.winxp",
                                		"microsoft.visualstudio.component.vc.atlmfc",
                                		"microsoft.visualstudio.component.windows10sdk.10586",
                                		"microsoft.visualstudio.component.vc.140"
                                	]
                                }
                                
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                                • EkopalypseE
                                  Ekopalypse @andrecool-68
                                  last edited by Ekopalypse

                                  @andrecool-68

                                  I don’t think that you are missing something regarding the certification process.
                                  It is expected that you cannot build a release version and use it with a non-signed scintilla dll.
                                  Only debug builds can be used in this manner unless you change the code in the release build.

                                  The way it works, as far as I understand, is like this.

                                  You build a release version of scintilla.
                                  You sign the scintilla dll with your private key.
                                  You put the public key, which is one result from signing the dll, into notepad++ and build the release version.
                                  Now on startup, I assume, it won’t report that error.

                                  The exact details on how to do it, I haven’t figured out yet.
                                  There are still too many open questions for me about the whole PKI thinggy.

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                                  • andrecool-68A
                                    andrecool-68 @Ekopalypse
                                    last edited by

                                    @Ekopalypse
                                    I did not understand where to put this key before building the project.

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                                    • andrecool-68A
                                      andrecool-68 @Ekopalypse
                                      last edited by

                                      @Ekopalypse

                                      https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/README.md
                                      In the README file, I cannot understand what exactly needs to be done with this public key.

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