[libvirt] MinGW environment for libvirt (at this moment))

[Atsushi SAKAI]

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