Hi Charlie,

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 08:00:52AM +0000, Charlie Benger-Stevenson wrote:
>  Hi,
> I have downloaded the latest version of the Virt-Viewer from spice.org and 
> when I tried and use USB redirection it tells me that it "Is not compiled 
> in".I understand from reading the Redhat repo information that it is compiled 
> in for Linux, but from this evidence, not for windows. This is a big problem.
> I have tried to follow various explanations of how to cross compile using 
> Fedora, but at every turn I hit a problem. The biggest of these is that there 
> is no absolute walkthrough of how to do this, so you are left reading scraps 
> of emails in mailing lists.For example the latest problem is "Windres" is 
> missing. Try googling that for an answer? There just isn't any.
> As you can tell I am fairly frustrated as I have lost days on this now, for 
> something that should be fairly simple. I am not alone, others also complain 
> of the lack of documentation.
> So my attentions turn to the configure file in the github, that does not even 
> include code for the much lauded --with-usbredir option that you find dotted 
> about in these mailing lists. So even if I managed to successfully cross 
> compile, I still would not be able to get around this problem and compile for 
> USB support.
> Please please please can you either :
> Provide a cross compiled version for windows with USB redir support orProvide 
> a decent enough how to of how to compile it myself.
> Completely and utterly in your hands
> Regards
> Charlie

Fabiano did a blog post about his experience when cross-compiling
Virt-Viewer with gtk3 here [0] which can help you a bit. The important
part is in the end of it, about mingw32-configure and generating the
msi installer.

Now, there is probably a reason to not have a usb redirection on windows
client... not sure if it will work.

[0]
http://blog.fidencio.org/2014/11/virt-viewer-using-gtk3-for-windows.html

Best,
Victor Toso

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