[ovs-dev] OVS Installation problems on Windows

[Alin Serdean]

Hi Sergio,

Email attachments usually get dropped by the server.

Looking at the output you sent, it seems that cccl can't see cl.exe (Visual Studio compiler). 

Can you make sure the `cl.exe` and `link.exe` are available via env variables and pointing to the right location?

Thanks,
Alin.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ovs-dev-bounces at openvswitch.org [mailto:ovs-dev-
> bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of sergio.tamurejo at imdea.org
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 6:45 PM
> To: ovs-build at openvswitch.org; ovs-dev at openvswitch.org
> Subject: [ovs-dev] OVS Installation problems on Windows
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I am Sergio, a Research Engineer at IMDEA Networks
> (http://www.networks.imdea.org/). Currently, we are working on SDN and
> Virtualization projects. I would need your help to solve an important issue
> that is blocking one of the projects.
> In particular, I am having some problems when I try to install the OVS on a
> Windows platform (specifically on Windows Server 2012 R2). I follow the
> steps described on
> http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/windows/  However,
> after executing this command:
> 
> ./configure CC=./build-aux/cccl LD="$(which link)" \
>     LIBS="-lws2_32 -liphlpapi -lwbemuuid -lole32 -loleaut32" \
>     --prefix="C:/openvswitch/usr" \
>     --localstatedir="C:/openvswitch/var" \
>     --sysconfdir="C:/openvswitch/etc" \
>     --with-pthread="C:/pthread"
> 
> I get the following error related to the compiler:
> 
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether
> build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p...
> /usr/bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets
> $(MAKE)... no checking whether make supports nested variables... no
> checking how to create a pax tar archive... gnutar checking for style of include
> used by make... none checking for gcc... ./build-aux/cccl checking whether
> the C compiler works... no
> configure: error: in `/cygdrive/c/openvswitch':
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for
> more details
> 
> Also, you can find attach the ‘config.log’ for further information.
> I would very grateful if you help me to solve this problem,
> 
> Best Regards,
> Sergio