Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 05/10] qemu-ga: Add configure options to specify path to Windows/VSS SDK

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 28/06/2013 13:30, Daniel P. Berrange ha scritto:
> > > > Does the VSS SDK actually include the .dll library that qemu-ga would
> > > > be linking aginst, or is the .dll part of base windows install, and
> > > > VSS SDK merely includes the header files needed for compilation ?
> > 
> > Only the headers, the IDL files, and the "import libraries":
> 
> That sounds more reasonable then from the POV of the gpl system
> components exception.
> 
> BTW, I notice that mingw64 includes the vss.h header and vssapi.a library,
> so I wonder if that's sufficient to compile this code, without needing
> to use the VSS SDK download at all.

No, it is not unfortunately.  It only defines a small subset of the API
(IVssAsync and IVssEnumObject).

Paolo