Fedora Windows Spice/Virtio KVM drivers and tools (was Re: Red Hat QXL GPU Driver for Windows 7?)

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Thu Jan 24 10:40:19 UTC 2013


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 07:59:24PM +0100, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones schreef op za 12-01-2013 om 01:24 [+0000]:
> > Do the virtio drivers now build using the mingw-* stack in Fedora?
> > IIRC this should be possible now that Fedora has switched over to
> > using mingw-w64.
> 
> The git repo for the virtio drivers only contains msvc project files, so
> in order to get the virtio drivers built using the mingw-w64
> cross-compiler would require new Makefile's to be written.
> 
> The mingw-w64 compiler which is currently in Fedora should be capable of
> building virtio as the DDK pieces are also bundled (in the
> folder /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/ddk).
> 
> I just took a quick attempt to manually compile these drivers using the
> mingw-w64 compiler in Fedora and I think it should be possible.

Do you happen to have a log of these attempts? You just quickly passed the
driver C files to mingw-gcc, or did you do something more sophisticated?

Thanks,

Christophe
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