[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-server 00/33] Port SPICE server to Windows

[Jonathon Jongsma]

Can you explain the end goal here?

On Fri, 2018-12-21 at 12:02 +0000, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> Mainly SPICE server uses lot of libraries to expose a TCP protocol.
> As TCP is implemented with socket library which is quite portable was
> not that hard to port.
> Beside some minor feature (see REAME.Windows) all was ported.
> During porting was choosen to keep Unix as the main platform, if a
> change would require too much changes some Windows wrapper is
> preferred instead. Not too complicated stuff, the main "wrapper" is
> that Windows errors from socket are written back into errno to avoid
> to change lot of code handling errors.
> 
> Frediano Ziglio (33):
>   Use PRIxPTR constant for string formatting
>   windows: Do not include headers not available on Windows
>   build: Detect Windows build and change some definitions
>   Avoids %m in formatting for Windows
>   sys-socket: Introduce some utility to make sockets more portable
>   sys-socket: Add socket_newpair utility
>   net-utils: Use socket compatibility layer
>   reds: Use socket compatibility layer
>   red-stream: Use socket compatibility layer
>   red-channel-client: Use socket compatibility layer
>   dispatcher: Use socket compatibility layer
>   event-loop: Use socket compatibility layer
>   sound: Use socket compatibility layer
>   basic-event-loop: Use socket compatibility layer
>   test-leaks: Use socket compatibility layer
>   test-channel: Use socket compatibility layer
>   test-stream: Use socket compatibility layer
>   windows: Undefine some conflicting preprocessor macros
>   windows: Disable code not working on Windows
>   replay: Force binary mode on input on Windows
>   dispatcher: Port to Windows
>   event-loop: Port to Windows
>   tests: Provide alarm replacement for Windows
>   test-listen: Exclude Unix sockets part under Windows
>   tests: Exclude tests that cannot work on Windows
>   test-stat: Adjust delay checks
>   red-stream: Fix SSL connection for Windows
>   test-display-base: Port to Windows
>   reds: Explicitly include inttypes.h
>   Disable recording filtering for Windows
>   replay: Port to Windows
>   Use structure for socket_t type instead of just a typedef
>   Add some notes for the Windows port
> 
>  README.Windows                    |  18 ++
>  configure.ac                      |  18 +-
>  server/Makefile.am                |   3 +
>  server/dispatcher.c               |  48 +++--
>  server/dispatcher.h               |   2 +-
>  server/event-loop.c               |  11 +-
>  server/gstreamer-encoder.c        |   2 +-
>  server/net-utils.c                |  35 ++--
>  server/net-utils.h                |  10 +-
>  server/red-channel-client.c       |  12 +-
>  server/red-channel.c              |   5 +-
>  server/red-client.c               |   4 +-
>  server/red-common.h               |   4 +-
>  server/red-qxl.c                  |   2 +-
>  server/red-record-qxl.c           |   8 +-
>  server/red-replay-qxl.c           |   4 +-
>  server/red-stream.c               |  78 +++++---
>  server/red-stream.h               |   6 +-
>  server/red-worker.c               |   6 +
>  server/reds-private.h             |   4 +-
>  server/reds.c                     | 124 +++++++------
>  server/reds.h                     |   4 +-
>  server/sound.c                    |  11 +-
>  server/spice-core.h               |   6 +
>  server/stat-file.c                |   2 +
>  server/sys-socket.c               | 287
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  server/sys-socket.h               | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  server/tests/Makefile.am          |  11 +-
>  server/tests/basic-event-loop.c   |   5 +-
>  server/tests/regression-test.py   |   4 +-
>  server/tests/replay.c             |  18 +-
>  server/tests/stat-test.c          |  12 +-
>  server/tests/test-channel.c       |  23 +--
>  server/tests/test-display-base.c  |  39 ++--
>  server/tests/test-leaks.c         |  11 +-
>  server/tests/test-listen.c        |  10 ++
>  server/tests/test-loop.c          |   1 +
>  server/tests/test-playback.c      |   1 -
>  server/tests/test-record.c        |   7 +-
>  server/tests/test-stream-device.c |   1 +
>  server/tests/test-stream.c        |   4 +-
>  server/tests/win-alarm.c          |  65 +++++++
>  server/tests/win-alarm.h          |  26 +++
>  tools/Makefile.am                 |   2 +
>  44 files changed, 964 insertions(+), 185 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 README.Windows
>  create mode 100644 server/sys-socket.c
>  create mode 100644 server/sys-socket.h
>  create mode 100644 server/tests/win-alarm.c
>  create mode 100644 server/tests/win-alarm.h
>