[libvirt] Works: libvirt client on OS X 10.5.6

[Schley Andrew Kutz]

Happy to do it, I just need permission to put a file there.  
Additionally, you can grab the binaries at http://files.lostcreations.com/libvirt-0.6.3-bin.tar.gz 
  and http://files.lostcreations.com/libvirt-java-0.2.1-bin.tar.gz.  
Both archives belong in /opt. They will decompress to libvirt-0.6.3  
and libvirt-java-0.2.1 respectively. The latter depends on the  
former's location. Additionally, the libvirt binaries depend on gnutls  
and all of its dependencies existing in /opt/local (the default  
MacPorts root location).

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-a

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developers, easily customized by more sophisticated developers, and  
readily extensible by experts." -- L. Stein

On May 8, 2009, at 4:41 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 11:50:25PM -0500, Schley Andrew Kutz wrote:
>> Getting libvirt-0.6.3 (client) to compile on OS X
>>
>> - Use MacPorts to install gnutls (and its several dependencies)
>>
>> - Set environment variables:
>>
>>  export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib"
>>  export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include"
>>  export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4
>>
>> - Configure
>>
>> --prefix=/opt/libvirt/ --without-sasl --without-avahi --without- 
>> polkit
>> --without-python --without-xen --without-qemu --without-lxc -- 
>> without-
>> openvz --without-libvirtd --without-uml
>>
>> - Apply patches
>>
>>   src/pci.c
>>
>>      #ifndef MODPROBE
>>      #define MODPROBE 0
>>      #endif
>>
>>   src/virsh.c:5665
>>
>>      if (command_ret != 0 /* WEXITSTATUS (0) */) {
>
> That's great - we can easily fix these 2 bugs.
>
>> - Compile
>>
>> The MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET variable is very important, otherwise  
>> you
>> will get symbol errors when linking.
>
>
> We currently have a patch on the website describing how to build for
> Windows
>
> http://libvirt.org/windows.html
>
> I think it'd be great to get an equivalent page for OS-X, if you'd
> like to document your process formally. Just create a new .html.in
> file in the docs/ directory, and add it to docs/sitemap.html.in too.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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