2010/8/12 Gal Gafni <gal@csl-int.com>:

Hi, I'm trying to compile the latest libvirt (0.8.3 ) on windows and the configure fails to find XDR lib.

Even without your XDR problem libvirt 0.8.3 won't compile successfully on Windows, you'll at least need this additional patch: http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=177e17e4626e18c1ce80f852e5a... So you either apply this patch manually on top of the libvirt 0.8.3 tarball (this will require autotools available, because the patch touches configure.ac), or you build from the hourly git snapshot: http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz

I installed the xdr-4.0-mingw2   and configure complains the XDR library doesn't exist. Should I get another XDR lib?

I'm not sure where you got xdr-4.0-mingw2 from. I use the portablexdr lib http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/portablexdr/files/portablexdr-4.9.1.tar.gz

The command I run:

$ ./configure --with-esx --without-sasl   --without-avahi --without-polkit --without-python   --without-xen   --without-qemu   --without-lxc --without-o penvz   --without-libvirtd

You also might need to run configure with additional envvars set in order to have it pick up the libs correctly CFLAGS=-I/include LDFLAGS=-L/lib ./configure Because MSYS (I assume you use MSYS) uses /include and /lib instead of /usr/include and /usr/lib.

the last 10 lines of configure: checking for mntent.h... no checking net/ethernet.h usability... no checking net/ethernet.h presence... no checking for net/ethernet.h... no checking linux/magic.h usability... no checking linux/magic.h presence... no checking for linux/magic.h... no checking for xdrmem_create in -lportablexdr... no checking for library containing xdrmem_create... no configure: error: Cannot find a XDR library

is there a a guide somewhere in the list for compiling the windows version on mingw?

Non I'm aware of. A while ago I created a bunch of scripts that setup an MSYS/MinGW environment on Windows, download and/or compile all dependencies and finally compile libvirt. You can find this scripts on github: http://github.com/photron/msys_setup Currently the scripts build libvirt 0.8.1, they are a bit outdated by now. I'll probably update them soon. Matthias