On 04/16/2015 03:52 AM, Pavel Fedin wrote:
Hello!
I am currently building libvirt under Windows64, and i would like to ask for correct way to do it. The first thing to resolve is absence of RPC XDR library. From configure source i figured out that portablexdr library may help. I have downloaded it, but it comes with a different RPC code generator named portable-rpcgen. I managed to use it, but i had to patch both libvirt (in order to recognize this generator and handle it properly) and portable-rpcgen (in order to correctly work under Windows, as well as get rid of some crashes). Initially i wanted to upstream portablexdr fixes and emailed the author. But the author replied that he is not going to fix portablexdr because it's now deprecated, since original XDR code comes under free license now. So, i have all necessary fixes in my own fork. He suggested me to come here to ask about these things. So, guys, how do you do it ? I cannot find any rpcgen package usable under Windows (MinGW, not Cygwin).
I haven't done much testing of the resulting project, but the ./autobuild.sh script is able to cross-build for mingw when run on a Fedora system, if you have enough of the mingw-* packages installed on Fedora. This includes mingw64-portablexdr (I have no idea if the mingw project will be shifting to a different xdr package any time soon). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org