Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Drop roms from standard build

[Filip Navara]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Paul Brook<address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I think the chances of the user having appropriate toolchains readily
>> > available (without significant additional per-rom configury) are
>> > extremely slim.
>>
>> Actually, for x86, all of our ROMs will just use GCC so when building
>> x86 on x86, it's very likely the right tool chain is available.
>
> Except when it isn't, for example when building with a windows binary.
> Also, x86 is only one of many targets qemu supports. If you're serious about
> rebuilding roms as standard, then at bare minimum you need to handle sparc and
> ppc as well as x86.
>
> Paul

Actually windows binaries of MinGW can built this just fine, you just
have to link it to the native platform format (PE-COFF) and then
objcopy it to binary. The rest should work just like on Linux. I'm
building the BIOS from time to time on MinGW and while it is annoying
to modify the build files to work for MinGW I'd be happy to maintain
it for QEMU.

Best regards,
Filip Navara