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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 19 April 2010 15:52 To: tim.mcleod@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Libvirt Compilation on MS Vista 2010/4/19 Tim McLeod <tim.mcleod@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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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