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Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image
From: |
Jim C. Brown |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:39:25 -0400 |
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:52:20PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> "John R. Hogerhuis"
>
> >
> > I can't say. But even if it were, I'd guess most here would rather work
> > under Unix-like OS.
>
> Undoubtably.
>
> The Linux builders outnumber the Win builders by probably 50 to one. If not
> more.
>
I just installed cygwin in my Windows XP inside of qemu. Ah, home away from
home .. at home.
Anyways, this might make for an interesting testing server.
> But I know from the effort I went through to get qemu to build under windows
> that it can indeed be a problem.
>
> And it's a bit sensitive to what other stuff you may install. And which
> version of Mingw you do. (Older works, newer doesn't.)
>
What about cygwin with -mno-cygwin?
> And a library header was in a different location than expected.
>
I didn't have an actual Windows GTK installation to look at, so I was just
guessing. If I had a properly set up cross compile environment, that probably
wouldn't have happened.
Of course, we'd have to get it right first, but that only has to be done once.
> Well, when I was building the gtk version for Jim, we did encounter a
> situation with the libraries.
>
> His build didn't use the same settings as the prebuilt ones did for Windows.
>
> A linux environment might be inclined to just build the whole thing. And to
> use paths as located in linux.
>
> It's also possible that developers may introduce more linux specific stuff
> without even realizing it.
>
> I'm just saying that some Win build issues might show up that you didn't
> think about while doing a Linux one.
>
The main issue is a testing environment. E.g. a way to run the compiled code
once the build completes to make sure everything works.
--
Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty.
Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.
- [Qemu-devel] Build environment image, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] Build environment image, Tim Walker, 2005/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image, Tim Walker, 2005/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image, John R. Hogerhuis, 2005/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image, Christian MICHON, 2005/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image, John R. Hogerhuis, 2005/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image, Christian MICHON, 2005/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image, jeebs, 2005/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image, jeebs, 2005/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image, John R. Hogerhuis, 2005/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image, jeebs, 2005/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image,
Jim C. Brown <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image, Tim Walker, 2005/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image, John R. Hogerhuis, 2005/06/24
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Build environment image, Ronald, 2005/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image, Christian MICHON, 2005/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] quick gtk2.c update, Jernej Simončič, 2005/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] quick gtk2.c update, Jim C. Brown, 2005/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] quick gtk2.c update, jeebs, 2005/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] quick gtk2.c update, Jernej Simončič, 2005/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] quick gtk2.c update, Jernej Simončič, 2005/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] quick gtk2.c update, Jernej Simončič, 2005/06/21