[libvirt] Libvirt 0.7.7 compile under mingw

[Dev.Atom]

Hi,

Okay, so I will wait for these patches, to continue

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From: "Matthias Bolte" <matthias.bolte at googlemail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 10:01 PM
To: "Dev.Atom" <arnaud.champion at devatom.fr>
Cc: <libvirt-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Libvirt 0.7.7 compile under mingw

> 2010/3/10 Dev.Atom <arnaud.champion at devatom.fr>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to compile 0.7.7 under XP/mingw and I have this issue :
>>
>> In file included from util/conf.c:24:
>> util/util.h:119: error: syntax error before "uid_t"
>> util/util.h:121: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
>> util/util.h:129: error: syntax error before "uid_t"
>> util/util.h:130: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
>>
>> I have configure in this way (msys based path) :
>>
>> ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --without-sasl --without-avahi
>> --without-polkit --without-python --without-xen --without-qemu --without-lxc
>> --without-openvz --without-libvirtd  --without-phyp --without-vbox
>> --prefix=/mingw/
>>
>> Any help ?
>>
>> Best reagards
>>
>> Arnaud Champion
>
> I have some patches and setup instructions lying around to make
> libvirt compilable on Windows using MinGW/MSYS. I think I should clean
> them up and get them upstream.
>
> Regarding the uid_t issue: IIRC there is no numeric user ID on
> Windows, so all uid_t related code is basically a noop on Windows.
> What's missing here is the definition of the uid_t type, this is fixed
> in my patches.
>
> There are some other issues on Windows that I also fixed already. I
> think I can get the fixes upstream this week.
>
> Matthias
>