[Spice-devel] Difficulty in building qemu with spice enabled

[Alon Levy]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:16:22AM +0800, wangfeng wangfeng wrote:
> Thanks!
> But I have installed spice-protocol before.
> In Building_Instructions, there are instructions:
> 
> cd $SRC_ROOT/spice-protocol
> ./autogen.sh --prefix=$INST_ROOT
> # if it complains about missing m4 directory do a
> #mkdir m4
> #./autogen.sh --prefix=$INST_ROOT
> make install
> 

The instructions should also say you need to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point
to the directories under INST_ROOT with the pc files.

It's in the Intro section in the top:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$INST_ROOT/lib/pkgconfig:$INST_ROOT/share/pkgconfig

> 
> 在 2011年2月22日 上午10:57，Songwen Liao <songwen.liao at gmail.com>写道：
> 
> > Hi,
> > you should install spice-protocol.
> > download the spice-protocol-0.6.3.tar.gz or later,and run
> > configure;make;make install.
> > then install spice,it will be work for you.
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> > 在 2011年2月22日 上午9:45，wangfeng wangfeng <wangfeng.v1.1985 at gmail.com>写道：
> >
> > hi,
> >> When I compile spice following the Building_Instructions,
> >> an error appears after " ./autogen.sh --prefix=$INST_ROOT " :
> >> ***************************************************
> >> ...
> >> checking sys/time.h usability... yes
> >> checking sys/time.h presence... yes
> >> checking for sys/time.h... yes
> >> checking for x86 or x86-64 platform... 64 bit
> >> checking for native Win32... no
> >> checking for some Win32 platform... no
> >> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> >> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> >> checking for PROTOCOL... configure: error: Package requirements
> >> (spice-protocol >= 0.6.0) were not met:
> >>
> >> No package 'spice-protocol' found
> >>
> >> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> >> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> >>
> >> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PROTOCOL_CFLAGS
> >> and PROTOCOL_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> >> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> >> ************************************************************************
> >> How can I solve the problem?
> >>
> >> 2011/2/21 Songwen Liao <songwen.liao at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>> If you just compile the spice server,there is no spice-server.pc in your
> >>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
> >>> So,you can find the .pc file and move it to your PKG_CONFIG_PATH or the
> >>> standard path.
> >>> just let the qemu can find spice-server library..
> >>>
> >>> thanks.
> >>>
> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>>> Message: 2
> >>>> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:05:37 +0100 (CET)
> >>>> From: Fr?d?ric Grelot <fredericg_99 at yahoo.fr>
> >>>> Subject: [Spice-devel] Difficulty in building qemu with spice enabled
> >>>> To: spice-devel at freedesktop.org
> >>>> Message-ID: <b997c0e5-a178-4fd0-b354-a69aad385e48 at zimbra.grelot.net>
> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello everyone,
> >>>>
> >>>> Because of a bug I mentioned on the virt at lists.fedoraproject.orgmailing list (available here :
> >>>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/virt/2011-February/002539.html), I tried to manually build my own copy of qemu-kvm, with spice enabled.
> >>>> I'm not sure if that is a "./configure" pre-requisite problem, but I
> >>>> spent few hours before understanding the following message :
> >>>> ./configure --enable-spice
> >>>> ERROR
> >>>> ERROR: User requested feature spice
> >>>> ERROR: configure was not able to find it
> >>>> ERROR
> >>>>
> >>>> So, for information to anyone encountering the same problem : this does
> >>>> not mean that your source repository hasn't got the feature, but this means
> >>>> that pkg-config could not find the "spice-server" description file.
> >>>> In my case, I had to set "PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkg-config"
> >>>> before launching configure.
> >>>>
> >>>> Maybe this information can find a place on the wiki... I'll see if I
> >>>> have time to do it tomorrow.
> >>>>
> >>>> Frederic.
> >>>>
> >>>> PS : By the way, after building qemu by myself (tag spice.kvm.v28 from
> >>>> git), the above-mentioned bug was solved.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ------------------------------
> >>>>
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> >>>> End of Spice-devel Digest, Vol 13, Issue 81
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> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
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