Il 23/05/2013 15:28, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >> 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. :/ > > Can we follow the same process for VSS as for the other mingw headers?
I have no idea. Many of them are automatically generated, but some of the others have content seemed non-trivial. > TBH I don't see how one can write them by hand without deriving it > from the SDK, which seems dubious. But if it worked for the rest of > mingw (which comes with Windows and DirectX headers, for example) then > maybe it can work here too. I'd rather avoid muddy legal waters... Paolo
