[vbox-dev] how to install Windows Guest Additions from svn

[Alexander Eichner]

AFAIK they use wine on linux.
I tried to build WINNT guest additions on linux and it failed because I
don't have cl.exe installed.
Failed command was wine cl.exe ... so I assume they use wine.
The problem is that only Visual C++ up to version 2003 works with wine
because all others need the .net framework. And I couldn't find the old
version in the internet. Now I'm using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
in a Windows XP VM to build the guest additions.

Alexander Eichner

Am Freitag, den 06.07.2007, 11:54 -0400 schrieb Jason Spiro:
> 2007/7/6, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2007/7/6, Byron Clark <byron.clark at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I would love to get the installer in the upstream SVN.  It does
> > > require a small patch right now (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/85),
> > > but with that fixed I would be happy to submit it under the MIT
> > > license.
> >
> > Excellent!
> >
> > > Unfortunately, you still would have to build the windows
> > > guest additions on windows.  Even though NSIS can build windows
> > > installers on linux, the guest additions themselves cannot be built on
> > > linux.
> >
> > Why can't they be built on Linux?
> 
> Also: Can they be built using Wine or mingw?
>