It has always been a pain to generate snapshots for Windows because it required me to open up my Windows VM (slow), push the code there, compile, etc. Well, until this week when I started to play with MinGW cross-compilation feature to completely build an Windows agent from Linux.
How it works? First, you need to install MinGW and makensis (to build the installer). On Ubuntu, it is just:
# apt-get install mingw32 mingw32-binutils mingw32-runtime
# apt-get install nsis
After that, download the latest snapshot: http://ossec.net/files/snapshots/ and generate the Windows package directory (where XX is the latest date):
# wget http://www.ossec.net/files/snapshots/ossec-hids-xx.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf ossec-hids-xx.tar.gz
# cd ossec-hids-xx/src/win32
# ./gen-win.sh
Now, you will have the win-pkg directory under src. Just go there and run make.sh. Your Windows agent package should be created in a few minutes:
# cd ../win-pkg
# sh ./make.sh
You will see the following in the screen:
Making windows agent
rootcheck/win-common.c: In function ‘__os_winreg_querykey’:
rootcheck/win-common.c:279: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 7 of ‘RegEnumValueA’ differ in signedness
win-registry.c: In function ‘os_winreg_querykey’:
…
Output: “ossec-win32-agent.exe”
Install: 7 pages (448 bytes), 3 sections (3144 bytes), 379 instructions (10612 bytes), 247 strings (42580 bytes), 1 language table (346 bytes).
Uninstall: 5 pages (320 bytes),
1 section (1048 bytes), 301 instructions (8428 bytes), 166 strings (2646 bytes), 1 language table (290 bytes).
Datablock optimizer saved 8371 bytes (~0.7%).
Which means that your agent executable ossec-win32-agent.exe has been created properly.