Re: QXL on Windows 8

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On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:47:05AM +0200, Mario wrote:
> Alon, thank you for your reply. Does this mean there is a bigger step to
> support Windows 8?

Yes. We need to write a new driver, WDDM one, will probably share much
code between it and the current driver.

> 
> 
> On Mon, 21 May 2012 11:26:11 +0300, Alon Levy wrote:
> >On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:04:36AM +0200, Mario wrote:
> >>Gentlemen,
> >>
> >>i just tried to compile the latest qxl driver (cloned from GIT) for
> >>Windows
> >>8. The first suprise was the fact that Microsoft introduced a dependency
> >>of
> >>having 4 GB Visual Studio installed to use the latest WDK.
> >>
> >>However the "dirs" file has been converted perfectly. Additional there
> >>was
> >>nither an error nor a warning while compiling. Unfortunately I didn´t
> >>get it
> >>work. The installer "tells" me I had the driver wouldn´t be made for
> >>this
> >>windows verision. But in fact it is especially compiled for Windows 8.
> >
> >AFAIK Windows 8 only supports WDDM drivers, ours is a XPDM driver.
> >
> 
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