Re: [libvirt-users] Libvirt Compilation on MS Vista
Matthias,
Thank you for the swift response. Now, the current state is the result of following the
instructions found a la Web in the attached 'print to PDF' file. Situation as
follows:
1. MinGW. MinGW-5.1.4.exe installed without error; no issues.
2. MSYS. Failed to locate the executable MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1.exe, but
MSYS-1.0.11.exe did install without error.
3. msysDTK. msysDTK-1.0.1.exe installed without error; no issues.
4. GTK. gtk-dev-2.12.9-win32-2.exe installed without error; no issues.
5. M4. Failed to locate compressed file m4-1.4.7-MSYS.tar.bz2, used
m4-1.4.13-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma instead. Did not understand instruction to extract
to the 'root' folder but instead replaced the original M4.exe found in
C:\MSYS\1.0\bin with the M4.exe found in the lzma file.
6. Autoconf. Failed to 'make' source found in autoconf-2.62.tar.gz due to a
'[m4sugar.m4f] Error 1' error, but following a reference found on the Web to this
error not occurring in autoconf-2.52.tar.gz, successfully 'made' and installed
this version. When moving on to step 7, Automake, compilation failed since autoconf 2.6
or newer was required. However, autoconf-2.60.tar.gz failed with the
'm4sugar.m4f' error in the same way as v2.62.
Brick wall; sore head! As I'm sure you have guessed my background is MS Windows
rather than Linux so I am finding these issues, probably minor to you, extremely daunting
and frustrating to me. I am encouraged that you have successfully compiled a Windows
Libvirt client, hope you can point me in the right direction. Many thanks...
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias Bolte [mailto:matthias.bolte@googlemail.com]
Sent: 19 April 2010 15:52
To: tim.mcleod(a)simulamen.eu
Cc: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] Libvirt Compilation on MS Vista
2010/4/19 Tim McLeod <tim.mcleod(a)simulamen.eu>:
Does a comprehensive set of instructions on how to compile Libvirt on
a
Microsoft Vista platform exist? Has this ever been accomplished? I would
very much appreciate input from persons who can give me confidence that a
Windows client application can be developed on top of Libviet that connects
to a QEMU system on an Ubuntu server. The Libvirt Windows Support page
(http://libvirt.org/windows.html) implies the exercise is trivial. Over the
last three weeks of failure I have come to find this assertion extremely
amusing.
Compiling libvirt for Windows in not very well documented. You can use
the mingw32 cross-compile toolchain provided by Fedora. I think
several people build libvirt for Windows this way.
Another option is to use MinGW and MSYS on Windows to compile libvirt
for Windows. I did that successfully.
So before I start to describe the setup/compilation process and so
on... could you describe what your current setup looks like and what
problems you're facing?
Matthias
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