Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 04/11] qemu-ga: Add an configure option to specify path to Windows VSS SDK

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 05/21/13 18:53, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/21/2013 09:33 AM, Tomoki Sekiyama wrote:
>> To enable VSS support in qemu-ga for Windows, header files included in
>> VSS SDK is required.
>> The VSS support is enabled when the option like below:
>>   ./configure --with-vss-sdk="/pass/to/VSS SDK"
>>
>> VSS SDK is available from:
>>   http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23490
>>
>> To cross-compilie using mingw32 for Linux, you need to setup the SDK on
> 
> s/compilie/compile/
> 
> There are two mingw projects: mingw (older, 32-bit only) and mingw64
> (newer, both 32- and 64-bit support).  The name 'mingw32' is misleading,
> as neither project uses it.  Fedora uses mingw64.

RHEL-6 has packages named mingw32-* (from
"rhel-6-workstation-optional-rpms" -- on my laptop anyway).

I believe saying just "mingw" should be fine, as proposed.

Laszlo