[libvirt] [PATCH] build: port vbox to cygwin

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu May 30 12:24:36 UTC 2013


On 05/30/2013 04:02 AM, Matthias Bolte wrote:

>> Although I'm tempted to push this under the build-breaker rule, and
>> although I suspect no one else is trying to build libvirt on cygwin,
>> I'll wait for a review on this one.  An alternative, more conservative,
>> patch might be to hack configure.ac to declare vbox and cygwin as
>> incompatible.

The conservative option may still be what I do as a stop-gap for 1.0.6...

> The correct approach (assuming Cygwin comes with the required WinAPI
> headers) would be to use src/vbox/vbox_MSCOMCGlue.c for Cygwin.

I'll give that a shot when I've got time (but admit that I've never done
COM programming, and have no idea how Cygwin will interact with it).

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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