On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Klaus Espenlaub <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17.03.2011 22:06, Vikram Kapoor wrote: >> >> Thanks Ramshankar. I am trying to get to a state where I can produce >> VBox binary as it ships and any help will be greatly appreciated! >> >> Is there anybody I can talk to about earlier questions I had about >> Windows build? I would like to avoid tripping over config mistakes. >> >> E.g. I get circbuf.cpp compile errors which require a simple patch to >> asm.h. But important question is whether code is out of sync or my >> settings wrong. So if you can confirm that OSE/SCN/truck compiles on >> windows in your setup, that will help a lot. > > At the moment everyone in the VirtualBox team uses a carefully selected set > of build tools (essentially what's listed on the web page), so we're using > an extremely uniform setup. The versions often are relatively old, which > means that unless one has a MSDN subscription the exact same versions are no > longer available. > > We're working on this (has to be low priority...), the plan is to fix all > issues in VirtualBox which prevent building with Visual Studio 2010 Express > and other free of charge tools/libraries which can be downloaded easily. Even Recompiler code? I read that piece. The code is pretty GCC specific. I am not sure if it is cost-effective to change that without upstream (QEMU) coordinate. > > Klaus > >> >> --Vikram >> >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Ramshankar >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> We do automated, staged building of ISOs for different platforms in VMs >> and are then fetched and packaged into the final ISO. This is >> non-trivial to setup and there are no ready-made instructions for this. >> >> You could have a look the root Makefile.kmk and >> src/VBox/Additions/Makefile.kmk for a start. >> >> On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 22:52 -0700, Vikram Kapoor wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > >> > VBoxGuestAdditions.iso that ships as part of VirtualBox.exe has >> > packages from different operating systems like Linux, amd64, Solaris >> > etc. I guess these must have been built on different platforms >> before >> > been packaged. >> > >> > >> > Are there any instructions on how to create the iso image correctly? >> > >> > >> > --Vikram >> > _______________________________________________ >> > vbox-dev mailing list >> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vbox-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev > > > -- > Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> > Dr. Klaus Espenlaub | Principal Software Engineer > Phone: +49 7151 60405 205 <tel:+49715160405205> > Oracle VM VirtualBox > > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt > > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG > Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 > > Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. > Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande > Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 > Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven > > Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed > to > developing practices and products that help protect the environment > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev >
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