Re: [Qemu-devel] Win32 QEMU binaries built from MinGW fail (access violation)

[Dan]

Great Idea... never occurred to me that gdb would actually work in MinGW

So I tried that, specifically adding "--enable-debug --disable-pie"
(ref1) and now the failure went away, but it is DOG slow!

I will try the following this weekend and report back:
1) Try another MinGW-w32 build without "--disable-pie" to see if the
bug comes back despite (ref1).
2) Wipe my Cygwin and MinGW directories, and rebuild with the following:
   a) Cygwin with {MinGW-w64 zlib gettext libiconv glib pkg-config} installed
   b) Download libSDL and "make native"
3) Download Qemu source and rebuild with new tool chain.
   a) If I get a crash, retry with debugging.
4) As a last resort, wipe and reload, this time using the Gtk+ bundle
instead of Cygwin repositories.
5) Repeat 1-4 as needed on Windows 8 x64 system and Windows Vista x86 system.

In either case, I should have some good results in a few days.

Thanks for the help.

ref1: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14276340

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 25.05.2013 03:56, schrieb Dan:
>> I've been trying to build QEMU source directly with MinGW.  The
>> compile/link works but there are tons of warnings (mostly Wformat).
>> Once I try to run the binaries in Windows though, I quickly hit access
>> violations once the HD image is mounted.  I've tested on the
>> linux-0.2.img.bz2 so that I can be consistent with others.  The
>> violations bounce around based on the image and emulation.  I've tried
>> with -nographic to try to rule out SDL.dll.  I'm at a loss, and
>> beginning to wonder if 100's of Wformat errors need to be patched one
>> by one to have a run-able windows binary.
>>
>> What I'm confused by is that both qemu.org (ref1) and wikibooks.org
>> (ref2) seem to imply that there are no special MinGW patches.  I've
>> also found many sites hosting valid QEMU win32 binaries like
>> omledom.com (ref3).  I've even ensured that my ./configure settings
>> match theirs (omledom), but of course I have no way to know if they
>> are compiliing FROM windows FOR windows, or FROM linux FOR windows.
>>
>> Here's is an abridged list of my process.
>>
>> install cygwin to for wget and unzip, though nothing is in the PATH varable.
>> wget mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe
>> wget python-2.6.6.msi
>> wget gtk+-bundle_2.24.10-20120208_win32.zip
>> wget SDL-devel-1.2.15-mingw32.tar.gz
>> wget qemu-1.4.1.tar.bz2
>> wget linux-0.2.img.bz2
>>
>> install mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe
>> install python-2.6.6.msi
>> unzip gtk+-bundle_2.24.10-20120208_win32.zip to c:\MinGW
>> unzip SDL-devel-1.2.15-mingw32.tar.gz to c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\src
>> unzip qemu-1.4.1.tar.bz2 to c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\src
>> decompress linux-0.2.img.bz2 to c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bld
>>
>> launch msys prompt && cd /usr/src/SDL && make native
>> launch msys prompt && cd /usr/src/qemu
>> ./configure --python=c:/Python26/python.exe --prefix=/usr/bld
>> make && make install && cd /usr/bld
>> ./qemu-system-i386.exe linux-0.2.img
>>
>> Observe an access violation in qemu-system-i386.exe within 5 seconds.
>>
>> Am I the only one compiling qemu FROM windows FOR windows?
>>
>> Also, just for grins, I replace my copy of qemu-system-i386.exe with
>> the one from omledom and things work without any issues.  I've also
>> tried the qemu 1.5 repositories and this weeks .git snapshot.  All
>> fail with similar errors.
>>
>> I've also done this on two machines, an x86 Windows Vista system and
>> an x64 Windows 8 system.  Same results on both.
>>
>> ref1: http://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32
>> ref2: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/MinGW
>> ref3: http://www.omledom.com/
>>
>> Long explanation at:
>> http://screamingmonkeys.blogspot.com/2013/05/return-to-linux-compiling-qemu-with.html
>>
>> -Dan
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> native builds for Windows should work and result in working executables.
> Can you run qemu-system-i386 with gdb and provide a stack trace of the
> crash?
>
> The Wformat warnings are "normal" with unpatched versions of MinGW32
> because MinGW32 does not correctly set the ANSI format macros
> (PRIu32, ...).
>
> I recommend using MinGW-w64. It is installed on top of MinGW and includes
> newer and better system include files as well as compilers for 32 and 64 bit
> executables, so you can compile for w32 and for w64.
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
>
> qemu-system-i386
>