Re: [Libvir] Cross-compiling to Windows

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:24:10PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Well, depends what they are after. My experience with libxml2 and libxslt is that there is a number of Windows, a number of compilers on/for Windows and that usually compatibility is maintained only by compiling all elements of the stack with the same compiler and the same flags (xml(a)gmome.org list has a long history of horror stories like crashes because libxml2 had a different /Mx compilation flag than other element of the application stack). If you want to distribute a binary like virsh that may be fine. For the library reuse it's a whole different story, you will need libxml2 compiled - probably with the same compiler - and other elements too. Libxml2 default Win32 binary is buit with Microsoft compiler (well one of them) using the most standard options, still people frequently need to recompile it. I guess the best is to ship as part of the distro the information about how to rebuild the library with various compilers as the information is avaible. Building binaries which would work on Win32 would be nice but probably limited to virsh in practice, I would expect people linking with libvirt on Windows to try to rebuild the application, but I may be wrong. Anything which can be added to help building on Windows is IMHO worth keeping and adding to the documentation, Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/