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These are a couple of patches in preparation for the Block Status implementation. While the patches (especially the second one) are very large they are really just elementary code motion. 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