Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] Add hard build dependency on glib

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Roy Tam <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2011/3/23 Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>:
>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> GLib is an extremely common library that has a portable thread 
>>> implementation
>>> along with tons of other goodies.
>>>
>>> GLib and GObject have a fantastic amount of infrastructure we can leverage 
>>> in
>>> QEMU including an object oriented programming infrastructure.
>>>
>>> Short term, it has a very nice thread pool implementation that we could 
>>> leverage
>>> in something like virtio-9p.  It also has a test harness implementation that
>>> this series will use.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>  Makefile        |    2 ++
>>>  Makefile.objs   |    2 ++
>>>  Makefile.target |    1 +
>>>  configure       |   13 +++++++++++++
>>>  4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> Yes, please.  I'd like to use glib to make simpletrace portable.
>>
>> To paraphrase the saying about non-trivial C programs and LISP interpreters:
>>
>> "In every cross-platform C program there is a glib."
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>>
>
> So, breaking win32 support again?

Can you please explain the win32 issue with glib?

Stefan