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| author | Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com> | 2018-12-21 11:41:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com> | 2019-05-07 10:14:35 +0100 |
| commit | 80fb39eedd1d8466348e33f758d070a042d6a8c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 20d25e2b2d4f094e36f5496cdef4b00c384b8eb0 /README.Windows.md | |
| parent | d417a0bdfd26a8fb08892cadfc115e7175e61321 (diff) | |
Add some notes for the Windows port
Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Victor Toso <victortoso@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/README.Windows.md b/README.Windows.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..98add5fd --- /dev/null +++ b/README.Windows.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +SPICE server Windows support +============================ + +SPICE server was ported from Unix/Linux to Windows. + +Most features are present, with some exceptions: + + - Unix sockets; + - signal handling; + - CLOEXEC flag (completely different handling on Windows); + - IPTOS_LOWDELAY flag (Linux specific); + - TCP_CORK (Linux/*BSD specific). + +Some features could be ported but currently are not: + + - statistics exported through mapped files. Disabled by default and mainly + used for development; + - filtering while recording (SPICE_WORKER_RECORD_FILTER environment). + Recording is used for debugging or development work; + - TCP_KEEPIDLE setting. Default is used. + +To compile and use with Qemu you can follow the guide at +https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32, just pass `--enable-spice` during +configuration. + +To test using a Linux cross compiler you can install Wine and run test +with + +``` +make LOG_COMPILE=wine check +``` |