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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Vladimir,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’d be happy to share. This has turned into a weekend project for me, so you’ll have to wait until I get some time at home for the gory details.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m attempting to use the latest released WDK (7600.16385.1) plus Visual Studio 10. Because of assorted comments in the build tools from vbox I am convinced that they are using these components as well, but have not released the correct kmake bits.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Because the vbox developers insist on mixing toolchains (visual studio/sdk/wdk include files) they have huge problems with conflicting definitions, particularly with the file “intrinsics.h” and “ntddk.h” (or its cousin “wdm.h”). In my opinion they have gone way down a wrong path, but that is just my opinion and I would be happy to go down that path with them if they would just provide a map </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I will send you more details sometime this weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Vladimir Chtchetkine [mailto:vchtch@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 29, 2011 3:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> Mark Roddy<br><b>Cc:</b> vbox-dev@virtualbox.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [vbox-dev] Build OSE on Win7 x64<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you, Mark.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Can you please share a bit what you did to do (at least partial) build? At this time I can't even pass the configuration step (well, I could by changing configure.vbs script, but this is a bit too hacky for me), so your experience in that would be a big help and time saver. Of course if I manage to build it I will share what it takes. I'm not greedy :-)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Vladimir<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Mark Roddy <<a href="mailto:mark.roddy@virtualcomputer.com">mark.roddy@virtualcomputer.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Hey when you get it working please post a detailed description of what you did. I have been trying to get a reasonable build environment for windows using recent toolchains working for a while now, and it has not been fun and I have not yet managed to get a complete build.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>The build requirements at <a href="http://virtualbox.org/" target="_blank">virtualbox.org</a> are hopelessly out of date. There are a few messages in this list archive that document what others have done with some rev or other of the OSE. It would be real nice if the developers would update the build instructions to something that works and is supportable and that doesn’t require editing standard include files from assorted build tools.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a href="mailto:vbox-dev-bounces@virtualbox.org" target="_blank">vbox-dev-bounces@virtualbox.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:vbox-dev-bounces@virtualbox.org" target="_blank">vbox-dev-bounces@virtualbox.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Vladimir Chtchetkine<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 29, 2011 2:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:vbox-dev@virtualbox.org" target="_blank">vbox-dev@virtualbox.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [vbox-dev] Build OSE on Win7 x64</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi guys,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Sorry if this Q is not appropriate for this list, but I couldn't find a better option.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>So, I'm trying to build VBox on my Win7 x64 machine, and can't event get past the configuration. The build requirement posted on <a href="http://virtualbox.org/" target="_blank">virtualbox.org</a>, although clear, seem to be unachievable this day and age. At least as far as getting gcc 3.3.x is concerned. I couldn't find its installation anywhere, and gcc 4.x.x doesn't pass the config checker. It's also not clear whether I can use VisualStudio 2008 to build VBox (seems like 2005 is OK, as well as 2010, but not 2008?) So, I guess, my question is are there any specific instructions on how to build VBox on Win7 x64?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Again, sorry if this is wrong place to ask this typ of Q. If you can point me somwhere else where it's more appropriate ("Building Vistual Box" topic on the forum seems to be dead) I will appreciate it.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Vladimir<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>