Re: [libvirt-users] Libvirt Compilation on MS Vista
2010/4/19 Tim McLeod <tim.mcleod@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
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@simulamen.eu Cc: libvirt-users@redhat.com Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] Libvirt Compilation on MS Vista 2010/4/19 Tim McLeod <tim.mcleod@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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