Re: [Qemu-devel] Add option to disable Cocoa on Mac OS X

[Andreas Färber]

Am 16.05.2011 um 12:57 schrieb Ben Leslie:

> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 23:54, Peter Maydell  
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 7 May 2011 12:40, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > So I suppose the only thing missing is a --disable-cocoa option,  
> > > yup.
> >
> > I've just noticed that some of the code in block/raw-posix.c
> > uses the CONFIG_COCOA #define to gate whether to do MacOSX
> > specific handling of CDROMs and so on. I'm not a MacOS expert
> > but maybe that needs to be changed to some other ifdef -- I'm
> > guessing we don't want to have cdrom handling randomly change
> > behaviour just because the user tried to disable Cocoa graphics
> > handling...
>
> These seems to be a good point. Potentially checking for __APPLE__ and
> __MACH__ makes more sense? (See: http://predef.sourceforge.net/preos.html#sec20)

Any update on this?

IIUC without digging further, today, Cocoa not only means displaying  
the graphical window but also has impact on which libraries are linked  
to, such as IOKit and CoreAudio. So simply replacing CONFIG_COCOA with  
__APPLE__ would seem not to be enough.

Tristan, if your patch takes care of everything, mind to resend or to  
provide a Patchwork link please?

Andreas