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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(
From: |
Daniel P. Berrange |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-( |
Date: |
Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:28:41 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 06:31:16AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
> >Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>Robert Riebisch wrote:
> >>>Hi!
> >>>
> >>>Unfortunately Win32 binaries built from QEMU SVN don't run on Windows
> >>>2000 anymore, because of missing DLL entry points in `ws2_32.dll'.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Unfortunately, win2k is so old at this point, that I don't know that
> >>it's worth jumping through hoops to support.
> >>
> >>If someone can come up with a simple patch (with appropriately
> >>licensed code), then I'd be happy to apply it. Otherwise, I don't
> >>think not supporting win2k as a host is a huge loss.
> >>
> >
> >There is in fact a signed-off two-liner still in the thread:
>
> "but it requires copyrighted file `Wspiapi.h' from MSVC2005, because
> MinGW doesn't provide such a file."
>
> So if Wspiapi.h carries a GPL compatible license, it's fine to include.
> The patch lacks Wspiapi.h though so it'll break the build on mingw.
Well MinGW already builds fine with getaddrinfo(), so no need for a GPL
header providing Wspiapi.h there. Since this is only needed for a few
Win builds, why not just make the include conditional on whether that
header actually exists. eg
#ifdef HAVE_WSPIAPI_H
#include <Wspiapi.h>
#endif
Regards,
Daniel
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- [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(, Robert Riebisch, 2009/02/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(, Anthony Liguori, 2009/02/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(, Avi Kivity, 2009/02/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(, Anthony Liguori, 2009/02/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(,
Daniel P. Berrange <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(, Anthony Liguori, 2009/02/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(, David Turner, 2009/02/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(, Robert Riebisch, 2009/02/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(, David Turner, 2009/02/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(, Jamie Lokier, 2009/02/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(, Robert Reif, 2009/02/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(, David Coppa, 2009/02/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(, Paul Brook, 2009/02/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(, Jamie Lokier, 2009/02/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(, Luca Tettamanti, 2009/02/04