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

[Frediano Ziglio]

Can be used with Qemu on Windows or to implement software like Xspice on
Windows.
Requires a really small path for Qemu (just remove a "#include <netdb.h>"
line).

Frediano

> 
> 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.
> >