[Spice-devel] Build windows virt-viewr

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi


----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:51:55 AM Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > I glad you made it through!
> > 
> > "make nsis" should have worked too, but we are in the process of
> > deprecating
> > the NSIS installer, in favour of more robust and more correct MSI
> > installer. That's why they were a couple of missing dlls.
> > 
> > make -C data msi should build the MSI, hopefully without missing dlls.
> 
> 
> Heh! ran straight into this (fedora) bug:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990528
> 
> Easily worked around though. Generated the MSI and installed fine on windows

Sorry, we have to maintain dependencies manually, and it gets broken every now and then... Since we can't easily keep it working all the time, it's fixed every now and then when needed.

> 
> Missing two dlls:
> 
> /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libdbus-glib-1-2.dll
> /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libdbus-1-3.dll

Weird that dbus and dbus-glib are needed.

> Once I copied them across remote-viewer worked well. I think the Cursor was
> displaying correctly on dark backgrounds but I was remoted onto a remote
> session to do it :) so nothing looked quite right anyway. Will test properly
> when I get into tomorrow.

This kind of nested scenario should work (in most cases, there are some pointers grabs limitations). Feel free to report a bug with more details

> And thanks, very much appreciate all the help. Will make my boss happy - had
> migrated all his dev VM's from VMWare to KVM (proxmox) and working well, only
> to discover he likes a navy blue background in his editor ...

yw

> Once I get the process smoothed out I can write it up for the spice-space
> wiki
> if you like.

That would be very much appreciated!

thank you very much