my compiled windows wsgate.exe will not run properly

[ghost]

So I have a working version of FreeRDP-WebConnect using the MSI installer for windows and it works great. When I replace the wsgate.exe with my compiled version, it just hangs after I press the connect button.

Hopefully you will see something that I have missed.

The following is the debug statements for my version and then the debug statements for the working version from the msi:

From my wsgate.exe

wsgate v1.2.0.Unknown starting
Listening on 0.0.0.0:4430
Listening on 0.0.0.0:8000
Request from 127.0.0.1: / => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /css/style.css => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /css/style.css => 304 Not modifiedRequest from 127.0.0.1: /css/vkb.css => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /js/modernizr.js => 304 Not modified
Request from Reqest 0 0.1: 12/.0.s.mpletab:js/j=>/30ga
Request from Reqest 0 0.1: 12/.0.s.mpletab:js/j=>/30ga 
Request from 127.0.0.1: /js/mootools.js => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /js/vkb.js => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /images/loading.gif => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /js/vkbl-en_US.json => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /js/vkbl-de_DE.json => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /empty_on_purpose => 304 Not modified
RDP::ContextNew
Created RDP client thread
Request FROM: 127.0.0.1 replied with 101
GOT WS CONNECT

From the wsgate.exe that came with the msi:

wsgate v1.2.0.330 starting
Listening on 0.0.0.0:4430
Listening on 0.0.0.0:8000
Request from 127.0.0.1: / => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /css/style.css => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /css/style.css => 304 Not modifiedRequest from 127.0.0.1: /css/vkb.css => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /js/modernizr.js => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /js/mootools.js => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /js/simpletabs.js => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /js/wsgate.js => 304 Not modified
Requ
Requ
Request from 127.0.0.1: /js/vkbl-en_US.json => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /js/vkbl-de_DE.json => 304 Not modified
Request from 127.0.0.1: /empty_on_purpose => 304 Not modified
RDP Host:               '192.168.3.4'
RDP Pcb:               ''
RDP Port:               '3389'
RDP User:               'administrator'
RDP Desktop size:       1870x895
RDP Performance:        0
RDP No full windowdrag: 1
RDP No menu animation:  0
RDP No theming:         0
RDP Disable TLS:        0
RDP Disable NLA:        0
RDP NTLM auth:          0
RDP::ContextNew
Created RDP client thread
Update.cpp:43
Request FROM: 127.0.0.1
Primary.cpp:42
To URI: /wsgate?host=192.168.3.4&port=3389&pcb=&user=administrator&pass=********=0&fntlm=0&nowallp=0&nowdrag=1&nomani=0&notheme=0&nonla=0&notls=0&dtsize=1870x895 => 101
GOT WS CONNECT
Request FROM: 127.0.0.1
To URI: /cur/00A2E470/1 => 200 OK

[c64cosmin]

It seems that you installed the stable version of Web-connect. What is upstream is ahead of the stable version. You should try the beta version.

[ghost]

So I checked out FreeRDP and FreeRDP-WebConnect and rebuilt them both from scratch. I am getting the following messages in the event log:

RDP::ContextNew
Created RDP client thread
Request FROM: 127.0.0.1 replied with 101
GOT WS CONNECT

followed by the next event log:

Faulting application name: wsgate.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x55f8a003
Faulting module name: freerdp.dll, version: 1.2.5.0, time stamp: 0x55f84d30
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000832fe
Faulting process id: 0x1dc0
Faulting application start time: 0x01d0f01247944fa3
Faulting application path: C:\FreeRDP-WebConnect\test\binaries\wsgate.exe
Faulting module path: C:\FreeRDP-WebConnect\test\binaries\freerdp.dll
Report Id: 9e2866cc-df87-48a0-880d-67ecf4eb18d2
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

Running wFreeRDP.exe works fine. Any idea what might be wrong? Is there any specific tag I should be building against?

[c64cosmin]

@tmakaro Can you tell me what you've done, so I can reproduce the error?

[ghost]

@c64cosmin Please look at the errors I got while compiling FreeRDP-WebConnect at the bottom of this comment. Perhaps my solution of casting variables is what is causing this problem. Also, why would I have to use cast in the first place?

My compilation process

Tools used

cmake-gui (cmake-3.3.1-win32-x86.exe)
Windows 10 64bit
Visual Studio 12 2013

Here are the libraries that I didn't compile:

OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015 downloaded from https://slproweb.com/download/Win32OpenSSL-1_0_2d.exe
ActivePerl 5.20 http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads/thank-you?dl=http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/releases/5.20.2.2002/ActivePerl-5.20.2.2002-MSWin32-x86-64int-299195.msi
Boost 1_58 downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.58.0/boost_1_58_0-msvc-12.0-32.exe/download
PThreads w32 2.9.1 downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pthreads4w/files/pthreads-w32-2-9-1-release.zip/download (I used the pre-built.2 folder)

Here are the libraries that I compiled: (I Ran cmake-gui to generate a VS2013 solution file)

Zlib 1.2.8 downloaded from http://zlib.net/zlib128.zip
libpng1618 downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/1.6.18/lpng1618.zip/download

From git: (Use cmake-gui for all except casablanca which already has a Visual studio solution file)

casablanca from https://git01.codeplex.com/casablanca (checkout 2.0.1 tag). It also, uses nuget packages for boost 1_58
EHS from https://github.com/cloudbase/EHS.git (use master branch)
FreeRDP from git://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP.git (use master branch)
FreeRDP-WebConnect from https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP-WebConnect.git (use master branch)

Other: FreeRDP compiles and runs fine. I had to modify FindCasaBlanca.cmake from:

    set(MSVC_SUFFIX "120_2_0.lib")
to
    set(MSVC_SUFFIX "120d_2_0.lib")

Errors during the compile of FreeRDP-WebConnect: I had to add about 50 casts for example in Update.cpp:

void Update::Register(freerdp *rdp) {
    log::debug << __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ << endl;
    rdp->update->BeginPaint = (pBeginPaint)cbBeginPaint;
    rdp->update->EndPaint = (pEndPaint)cbEndPaint;
    rdp->update->SetBounds = (pSetBounds)cbSetBounds;
    rdp->update->Synchronize = (pSynchronize)cbSynchronize;
    rdp->update->DesktopResize = (pDesktopResize)cbDesktopResize;
    rdp->update->BitmapUpdate = (pBitmapUpdate)cbBitmapUpdate;
    rdp->update->Palette = (pPalette)cbPalette;
    rdp->update->PlaySound = (pPlaySound)cbPlaySound;
    rdp->update->SurfaceBits = (pSurfaceBits)cbSurfaceBits;

    rdp->update->RefreshRect = (pRefreshRect)cbRefreshRect;
    rdp->update->SuppressOutput = (pSuppressOutput)cbSuppressOutput;
}

I may have fixed the problem incorrectly. Those above casts were originally not there. Looking at the method signatures. Example

From FreeRDP update.h:
    typedef BOOL (*pBeginPaint)(rdpContext* context);

    From FreeRDP-WebConnect update.hpp:
    static void cbBeginPaint(rdpContext* context);

[c64cosmin]

@tmakaro The casts are just typedefs to some function pointers, they shouldn't be any problem, but it's good you've done it, no problem there. I think the problem might be because you are using FreeRDP's master branch. Try this one : https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/tree/stable-1.1

[ghost]

@c64cosmin Thanks. I'll give it a try tonight when I am off work.

[ghost]

@c64cosmin That worked! WooHoo!