From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; The Windows port page currently links to pre-built libvirt DLLs for release 0.8.8 which are 2 years old now. Until we can reliably produce official Windows installers, point people to the virt-viewer MSI installers instead which include the libvirt DLLs. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/windows.html.in | 64 ++++++++-------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/windows.html.in b/docs/windows.html.in index 89dfdb1..a0fe533 100644 --- a/docs/windows.html.in +++ b/docs/windows.html.in @@ -12,67 +12,23 @@ as well but we either haven't tested or received reports for them. </p> - <h2><a name="installer">Experimental installation package</a></h2> + <h2><a name="installer">Installation packages</a></h2> <p> - A windows installation package is in development. An experimental - version is available here: + Users who need pre-built Windows DLLs of libvirt are advised + to use the <a href="http://virt-manager.org">Virt Viewer</a> + pre-compiled <a href="http://virt-manager.org/download/">Windows MSI packages</a> </p> - <a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/win32_experimental/Libvirt-0.8.8-0.... - - <p> - <b>It is not production ready.</b> - </p> - - <p> - This version includes the libvirt development headers and libraries - for compiling against, the virsh shell with its needed dependencies, - and untested Python bindings. - </p> - - <h3><a name="caveats">Caveats</a></h3> - - <ul> - <li> - This installer just repackages the files compiled using Matthias - Bolte's msys_setup scripting (described below). - </li> - <li> - This is a .exe installer, created using NSIS. We're looking into - something to create .msi installers as well. - </li> - <li> - The script for the NSIS installer is available online - <a href="https://github.com/justinclift/nsis_libvirt_installer">...;. - </li> - </ul> - - <h3><a name="knowninstallerprobs">Existing problems with this installer we know about</a></h3> - <p> - These are problems we know about, and need to be fixed in subsequent - versions of the installer (assistance welcomed): + These installers include the libvirt, gtk-vnc and spice-gtk DLLs + along with any of their pre-requisite supporting DLLs, the virsh + command line tool and the virt-viewer &amp; remote-viewer graphical + tools. The development headers are not currently provided in this + installer, so this cannot be used for compiling new applications + against libvirt. </p> - <ul> - <li> - New versions install over other libvirt versions - <br /><br /> - If a version of this installer has installed libvirt on the system - already, this installer will automatically suggest the same - installation location, then overwrite the version already there - without checking. - <br /><br /> - This is fairly non-optimal, and should be fixed. What should - probably happen, is for this installer to detect an existing - installation then offer to either uninstall it first or ask for a - new installation location. - <br /><br /> - </li> - - </ul> - <h2><a name="conntypes">Connection types</a></h2> <p> -- 1.8.1.4