LDAP C SDK

Question

Hi, I need to write a simple LDAP client in C. The only binary distributions I found are old and also lack SSL tools needed to implement an SLDAP connection. A complete and up to date distribution that I found is that of Mozilla however it is in source code format and I have not been able to compile it into binary form for windows.

I used the instructions described here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/LDAP_C_SDK. I got up to the step where apparently I now need to use nsinstall but I don't know how this is done. Does anyone know how nsinstall is to be used.? Alternatively, does anyone know of an existing binary distribution of the LDAP C sdk for windows? I also need the ssl libraries and associated tool for configuring the keystore.

thanks, Mike

Answer 1

I used The Google a bit and ended up with this site that has Windows distributions of OpenLDAP: http://www.symas.net/portal/

OpenLDAP is heavily used on *NIX platforms, less commonly on Win32, but these folks seem to have done the heavy lifting for you. Good luck!

Oh, and for docs and API reference, hit http://www.openldap.org

Answer 2

Thanks everyone for their input. I found a complete and up to date package with great documentation. It's that of Novells' - it's on their site and it's free. When I visited them originally, I did not notice the win32 package - but it's there, under netware_windows:

http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Cldap