[virt-tools-list] Compiling for USB Redirection support in Windows

[Christophe Fergeau]

Hi,

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 07:22:33AM +0000, Charlie Benger-Stevenson wrote:
> Hi,
> I am coming here first as I don't really know where else to turn, and you were extremely helpful yesterdday. I am literally losing days of my life on this, and I am sure it should not be this hard.
> On your advice I have tried to cross compile spice-gtk for usbredir support. I cannot get past the configure stage.
> I have built a new VM for doing the compiling and installed MingW (which is supposed to be everything you need for cross compiling), then I installed all of the dependancies (including optional ones) as listed on the spice-gtk github readme file.
> Still I cannot get past the configure stage :
> "No package pixman-1 found. Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non standard prefix."
> Well I don't know what they mean by a non standard prefix, this is all shiny and freshly built from scratch yesterday, so about a standard as you can get.
> Can you help point me in the right direction? Or better yet, ask someone to simply provide a version of virt-viewer for windows that does have usb redirection compiled in?

Recent fedora versions should have everything which is needed already
compiled as mingw-*, eg mingw{32,64}-pixman
I've pushed a spice-gtk scratch-build which should have usb redirection
support at https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9826824

Christophe
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