Question: plan to submit the patches to the upstream?

[AkihiroSuda]

Hi @runsisi

It would be great if your patches can get merged in the socat upstream: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/

Do you have a plan to submit the patches to the upstream?

[maciejsszmigiero]

☝️ Would be really great to have SOCKS5 support upstream @runsisi

[mmraz]

The upstream repo has a socat2 branch with socks5 support.

[AkihiroSuda]

The last commit to socat2 branch was 5 years ago (2016-01-29) : https://repo.or.cz/socat.git/shortlog/refs/heads/socat2

[mmraz]

I submitted PR #3 to get this repo current to version 1.7.4.1. Also available in my fork at mmraz/socat

[furkanmustafa]

I've also needed this, so did some work on it. Hope it helps somebody.

TODO/Status:

• [ ] gather and publish these information on a single page somewhere
• [x] Mirror https://git.rlab.io/forks/socat (Almost same as @mmraz 's one, but rebased to upstream.)
• [x] Alpine Package / APKBuild (based on alpine edge): https://git.rlab.io/system/alpinelinux/rports/-/tree/master/rlab/socat
  • Prebuilt x86_64 package here => https://git.rlab.io/forks/socat/-/releases/tag-1.7.4.3-rlab1-socks5
  • [ ] CI builds
  • [ ] arm64 builds
• [x] Container image => dkr.rlab.io/system/dockerized/socat:latest ( x86_64 only )
  • Source: https://git.rlab.io/system/dockerized/socat
  • [ ] arm64 build
  • [ ] multi-arch manifest
• [ ] prepare a status table
• [ ] signed packages (Alpinelinux)
• [ ] try upstreaming
  • Hopefully someone in my team might do

[Franky1]

@furkanmustafa Do you know what the current build commands are? The commands used in the README.md don't work like that anymore...

[furkanmustafa]

@Franky1 I'm not aware of recent changes, but..

It looks like normal drill of ./configure && make && sudo make install is supposed to work .. :thinking:

[Franky1]

@furkanmustafa Ok, maybe i am too unexperienced with linux, but there is no ./configure script in the sources?

[furkanmustafa]

Ah... yes. you're right. It's available in released source tarballs.

If you clone the source here, you will need to use autoconf (from autotools package?) to generate configure script first.

More on topic;

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10999549/how-do-i-create-a-configure-script
• https://thoughtbot.com/blog/the-magic-behind-configure-make-make-install
• https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/

( Once you can build it successfully, this could deserve a documentation contribution to the upstream here http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ ) ( Also, further discussion of building socat might be considered off-topic here )