[Spice-devel] QXL on Windows 8

[Mario]

Alon, thank you for your reply. Does this mean there is a bigger step 
to support Windows 8?


On Mon, 21 May 2012 11:26:11 +0300, Alon Levy wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:04:36AM +0200, Mario wrote:
>> Gentlemen,
>>
>> i just tried to compile the latest qxl driver (cloned from GIT) for 
>> Windows
>> 8. The first suprise was the fact that Microsoft introduced a 
>> dependency of
>> having 4 GB Visual Studio installed to use the latest WDK.
>>
>> However the "dirs" file has been converted perfectly. Additional 
>> there was
>> nither an error nor a warning while compiling. Unfortunately I 
>> didn´t get it
>> work. The installer "tells" me I had the driver wouldn´t be made for 
>> this
>> windows verision. But in fact it is especially compiled for Windows 
>> 8.
>
> AFAIK Windows 8 only supports WDDM drivers, ours is a XPDM driver.
>