Matthias, Polite enquiry on the progress of tidying up scripts to automate the MinGW/MSYS setup and libvirt compilation on Windows, if I may? Not meaning to appear impatient, but I would like to give my client some indication of when I can meet my deliverables. Many thanks... Tim -----Original Message----- From: Matthias Bolte [mailto:matthias.bolte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 21 April 2010 08:14 To: tim.mcleod@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Libvirt Compilation on MS Vista [Let's keep the list involved] 2010/4/20 Tim McLeod <tim.mcleod@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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. Probably minor issues 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 > Okay, so the problem is setting up a working MinGW/MSYS environment. You used the instructions posted here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-June/msg00145.html I didn't try that, but I wrote a set of scripts to automate the MinGW/MSYS setup and libvirt compliation on Windows. I'll clean them up a bit and post them, so you can try to use them. Probably we should also improve http://libvirt.org/windows.html with more details. Matthias
