Requirements
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-To build the bindings (required):
+To build the bindings, examples, and mlvirsh (required):
GNU make, gcc
libvirt >= 0.2.1 (from http://libvirt.org/,
get the latest version if you can)
ocaml >= 3.08 (from http://caml.inria.fr/)
+
+Optional, but highly recommended:
+
findlib (from http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/)
To build the OCaml interface documentation (optional):
ocamldoc (part of OCaml itself)
-To build mlvirsh (optional):
-
- Extlib (from http://ocaml-lib.sourceforge.net/)
-
To build virt-top (optional):
ocaml-curses (from http://www.nongnu.org/ocaml-tmk/)
perldoc (part of Perl)
+To build a Windows installer (optional):
+
+ NSIS (http://nsis.sf.net)
+
OCaml packages are available for Fedora 7 and above (ocaml,
ocaml-findlib, ocaml-findlib-devel, ocaml-ocamldoc, ocaml-extlib,
ocaml-extlib-devel, ocaml-lablgtk, ocaml-lablgtk-devel, ocaml-curses,
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=libvirt/ mlvirsh/mlvirsh.opt
+Windows
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+
+I have built libvirt (the bindings), examples, mlvirsh and
+mlvirtmanager on Windows using the MinGW port of OCaml. It's quite
+likely that it will also work under VC++, but I have not tested this.
+
+You should make sure that your $PATH (environment variable) contains
+the names of the directories containing all required DLLs, in
+particular you will require:
+
+ libvirt-*.dll (from libvirt)
+ libgnutls-*.dll (from GnuTLS)
+ libgcrypt-*.dll
+ libgpg-error-*.dll
+ libtasn1-*.dll
+ libxdr.dll (from libxdr)
+ libxml2-*.dll (from libxml2)
+ and, a multitude of DLLs from GTK if you want to run mlvirtmanager
+
+You can use a tool such as Dependency Walker to find/check the
+locations of dependent libraries.
+
+To build the Windows installer, you will need NSIS. Then do:
+
+ ./configure --with-nsis=/c/Progra~1/NSIS
+ make all opt
+ make wininstaller
+
+This should build a Windows binary installer called
+ocaml-libvirt-$VERSION.exe which includes the bindings, all required
+DLLs and all programs that can be built under Windows.
+
+
mlvirsh
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