[libvirt] Libvirt 0.7.7 compile under mingw

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:01:55PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> 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.

  That would be nice ! Thanks :-)

Daniel

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