From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56009) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UfVT9-0004hZ-7T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 May 2013 09:22:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UfVT2-0002A5-K2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 May 2013 09:22:11 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60559) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UfVT2-00029F-Cf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 May 2013 09:22:04 -0400 Message-ID: <519E1783.4000102@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 15:20:03 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20130521153333.4880.74390.stgit@hds.com> <20130523121537.GK9093@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20130523121537.GK9093@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 00/11] qemu-ga: fsfreeze on Windows using VSS List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, lcapitulino@redhat.com, vrozenfe@redhat.com, Tomoki Sekiyama , seiji.aguchi@hds.com, areis@redhat.com Il 23/05/2013 14:15, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:33:33AM -0400, Tomoki Sekiyama wrote: >> * How to build & run qemu-ga with VSS support >> >> - Download Microsoft VSS SDK from: >> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23490 >> >> - Setup the SDK >> scripts/extract-vsssdk-headers setup.exe (on POSIX-systems) >> >> - Specify installed SDK directory to configure option as: >> ./configure -with-vss-sdk="path/to/VSS SDK" --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- > > Are there any plans to make this more developer-friendly? In the Linux > world it's unusual to download third-party SDKs; development headers are > available as packages from the distro. > > I haven't looked at the SDK license but hopefully the VSS headers can be > added to the mingw cross-build toolchain? No, the mingw headers are (re)written by hand, or something like that. The VSS license does not permit redistribution. :/ Paolo