[virt-tools-list] Fwd: Problem with remote-view on Windows

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:07:35AM +0800, lulin Fan wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I met a strange problem when I compiled the virt-view-0.5.6 for windows.
> I compiled virt-viewer-0.5.6 on Fedora 18, and install all
> dependencies(mingw & spice-gtk-0.18), and use the follow command to build
> it:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>   mingw32-configure  --with-gtk=2.0 --with-spice-gtk && mingw32-make
> && mingw32-make install
>   cd data && make virt-viewer-0.5.6.exe
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> After install  virt-viewer-0.5.6.exe on window 7 32bit, I can connect to an
> VM(32bit win7 with QXL driver), but the display is very strange, see
> attached image.

This looks like https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61876 which is
fixed only in cairo.git. Alternatively, you can use an older stable version
of cairo.

> 
> 
> By the way, I can only success with nsis package,  make msi package will
> got such error message:
> 
> [root at localhost virt-viewer-0.5.6]# cd data/ && make msi
>   GEN      virt-viewer-x86-0.5.6.msi
> 
> (wixl:24679): wixl-WARNING **: wixl.vala:50: Unknown option --arch
> Please specify input files.
> make: *** [virt-viewer-x86-0.5.6.msi] Error 1
> [root at localhost data]#

The --arch option was added in
https://git.gnome.org/browse/msitools/commit/?id=457124eb
but this commit does not seem to have made it into a release yet.

Christophe
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