AFAIK they use wine on linux. I tried to build WINNT guest additions on linux and it failed because I don't have cl.exe installed. Failed command was wine cl.exe ... so I assume they use wine. The problem is that only Visual C++ up to version 2003 works with wine because all others need the .net framework. And I couldn't find the old version in the internet. Now I'm using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition in a Windows XP VM to build the guest additions.
Alexander Eichner Am Freitag, den 06.07.2007, 11:54 -0400 schrieb Jason Spiro: > 2007/7/6, Jason Spiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007/7/6, Byron Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I would love to get the installer in the upstream SVN. It does > > > require a small patch right now (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/85), > > > but with that fixed I would be happy to submit it under the MIT > > > license. > > > > Excellent! > > > > > Unfortunately, you still would have to build the windows > > > guest additions on windows. Even though NSIS can build windows > > > installers on linux, the guest additions themselves cannot be built on > > > linux. > > > > Why can't they be built on Linux? > > Also: Can they be built using Wine or mingw? > _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
