2015-04-16 11:52 GMT+02:00 Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@samsung.com>:

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).

Hi, In 2010 I wrote a set of scripts to build libvirt on Windows using MinGW. Sou can find them here: https://github.com/photron/msys_setup I haven't update them in the last two years, so they might not work out-of-the-box anymore. But it might still be helpful to look at them and see how I did things. Regarding XDR: I used portablexdr. It worked for me, I can't remember if I had to patch it or not. -- Matthias Bolte http://photron.blogspot.com