Running the tests to verify that things worked properly…so far looking good. Got a firewall exception and while I ok’d it, looks like the related test may have failed. At the moment I’m primarily interested in pretty simple stuff so this may be ok.

First order look suggests that LibreSSL is targeting only OpenBSD. This may be wonderful code, but I need posix/linux/windows so for the time being I’m going to just walk on by…

Here goes the final ‘nmake install’. Wow, that’s a lot of files being pushed around…and done.

Tonight I’ll get down to things. Probably want to pull in the google protocol buffer code and maybe google test so that may stretch things out. Once those are good to go I’ll start mucking about with this library.

Near term sandbox goals

I want to get a large scale archiving tool together. I’ll probably use SQLite for stat storage and run media (hard drive, archive DVD, external backup drive) with a reasonable hashing algorithm to identify duplicates and manage backup and archiving.

At the moment I generally keep two DVD archive copies of important stuff and an external USB hard drive near-line copy. With the tools I’ve got this is a bit spotty as I can’t readily pull updated files out of the mix and inefficient as my response tends to be to backup the whole mess and leave deep archive for some other time. I want to address this.

Longer term, having a range of useful local support libraries in place should bootstrap the other things I’m interested in playing with as any internet facing work wants encryption and a range of other tools available. I expect this to be a long process but far too long deferred.