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The patches following do indeed allow you to compile nbdkit.exe, but it does not actually work yet. I'm posting this experimental series more as a work in progress and to get feedback. Note this does not require Windows itself to build or test. You can cross-compile it using mingw64-* packages on Fedora or Debian, and test it [spoiler alert: it fails] using Wine. Rich.

Also available here: https://github.com/rwmjones/nbdkit/tree/2020-windows-mingw This is the port to Windows using native Windows APIs (not MSYS or Cygwin). This patch series is at the point where it basically now works. I can run the server with the memory plugin, and access it remotely using guestfish, creating filesystems and so on without any apparent problems. Nevertheless there are many

Also available here: https://github.com/rwmjones/nbdkit/tree/2020-windows-mingw-nolib After a lot of work I have made the port to Windows work without using a separate library. Instead, on Windows only, we build an "import library" (library of stubs) which resolves references to nbdkit_* functions in the main program and fixes up the plugin, basically the first technique outlined in