On 03/29/2012 03:53 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Some of the test suites use fprintf with format specifiers that are not supported on Win32 and are not fixed by gnulib.
The mingw32 compiler also has trouble detecting ssize_t correctly, complaining that 'ssize_t' does not match 'signed size_t' (which it expects for %zd). Force the cast to size_t to avoid this problem
Nothing wrong with your libvirt patch, but I can't help wonder if this is a bug in the gnulib replacement headers, where mingw lacks ssize_t but gnulib defines it to the wrong type in comparison to size_t (that is, since mingw64 has sizeof(size_t)==4, it is not obvious whether size_t is 'unsigned long' or 'unsigned int', and if gnulib picked 'int' for ssize_t but size_t is 'unsigned long', that would explain the compiler warnings. Gnulib may need to be tweaked to help work around this mingw situation. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org