Here is the update for instruction to make install on MinGW. (Since I goes to from make only to pass to make install) 1.Install MinGW-5.1.4.exe 2.Install MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1.exe 3.Install msysDTK-1.0.1.exe Above files are taken from following http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435 4.Install gtk-dev-2.12.9-win32-2.exe (This is for using pkg-config/gettext/libxml2) Expand this to C:\MinGW\lib\GTK Taken from http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/ 5.update some MSYS packages m4-1.4.7-MSYS.tar.bz2 from root directory (we need 1.4.5 or later but msysDTK installs 1.4) gawk-3.1.5-MSYS-1.0.11-1.tar.bz2 (gawk match with 3 args are needed on ChangeLog.awk but not in gawk 3.0.4) Taken from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435 6.Install autoconf-2.62.tar.gz ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install Taken from http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ 7.Install automake-1.10.1.tar.gz ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install (create /usr/share/aclocal-1.10) Taken from http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ 8.Install libtool-1.5.26.tar.gz ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install Taken from http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ 9.Add m4 script for aclocal cp /mingw/lib/GTK/share/aclocal/* /usr/share/aclocal (This is for running autogen.sh) 10..Install GNUTLS expand gnutls-2.3.13.exe to c:\msys\1.0 (it goes to /usr)(This is for /usr/share/aclocal) cp -r /usr/include/gnutls /mingw/include cp /usr/lib/libgnutls* /mingw/lib cp /usr/lib/libgpg-error* /mingw/lib cp /usr/lib/libgcrypt* /mingw/lib cp /usr/lib/libtasn1.* /mingw/lib rewrite dependency_libs on /mingw/lib/libgnutls.la and /mingw/lib/libgcrypt.la from /home/jas/gnutls4win/inst to /mingw Taken from http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/ 11.expand xdr Install Rich's package xdr-4.0-mingw5.tar.gz rpc => /mingw/include lib*.a => /mingw/lib Taken from http://www.annexia.org/tmp/xdr-4.0-mingw5.tar.gz 12.get libvirt code get Hourly development snapshot(this package includes autogen.sh) Taken from ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ apply patch. patch should be taken from https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-June/msg00196.html 13.create virsh ./autogen.sh ./configure --without-xen --without-qemu --without-sasl --without-libvirtd make make syntax-check make check make install 14.execute /usr/local/bin/virsh.exe Hope virsh.exe works on MinGW. Thanks Atsushi SAKAI -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list