[vbox-dev] svn build fails today.

[Oliver Loch]

Hi,

I'm working on a fix. But ATM I'm trying to get a working build environment for VirtualBox under Windows...

Kinda tricky...

As far as I have a working environment, I post a patch.

KR,

Oliver

Am 12.09.2012 um 18:48 schrieb Oliver Loch <o.loch at gmx.net>:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on a fix. But ATM I'm trying to get a working build environment for VirtualBox under Windows...
> 
> Kinda tricky...
> 
> As far as I have a working environment, I post a patch.
> 
> KR,
> 
> Oliver
> 
> Am 12.09.2012 um 18:35 schrieb Perry Halbert <phalbert at cox.net>:
> 
>> Any determination on how to proceed forward with this?  The way it stands building the VNC extension pack       stops the normal build.  From what I see it looks like 0.9.9 is going to be a requirement but that pkg is not native to any stable build I have. 
>> 
>> 
>> On 09/10/2012 07:00 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On Wednesday 05 September 2012 20:55:36 Oliver Loch wrote:
>>>> I installed 12.04 in a VM and checked the headers. It's as Klaus said, the
>>>> rfb.h file defines IPv6 support that is not there.
>>>> 
>>>> I got the source from Ubuntu and the main source from sourceforge and both
>>>> are defining LIBVNCSERVER_IPv6 even if it is not there.
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe we should check if LIBVNCSERVER_IPv6 is defined and if
>>>> LIBVNCSERVER_PACKAGE_VERSION >= 0.9.9
>>> Yes, such a check is required but such a check is quite difficult
>>> (LIBVNCSERVER_PACKAGE_VERSION is a string). I wonder how a software
>>> is supposed to detect the interface version of that package.
>>> 
>>>> Seems to be a bug in libvncserver. Sorry.
>>>> 
>>>> @Klaus: what other issues did the patch create?
>>> For instance, the patch uses a Windows function which is Windows 2000+.
>>> Our Guest Additions do also support Windows NT4, therefore we did the
>>> quick hack and disabled the runtime change for Windows hosts.
>>> 
>>> There were several other issues and some of them were fixed. See the
>>> current SVN for more details, for example on how to use RTStrCopy().
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> 
>>> Frank
>>> 
>>> 
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