Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 2.4 for Windows - current status

[Peter Maydell]

On 5 August 2015 at 12:03, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> I recently upgraded my build environment from Debian Wheezy
> to Debian Jessie. Obviously the newer MinGW-w64 packages
> introduced several problems for QEMU:
>
> * Compiler warnings caused by newer compiler and changes in
> system include files
>
> * Modified order of include files and definitions. This results in
> a wrong sigsetjmp call in cpu-exec.c for 64 bit code.
> That code will crash as soon as there is a longjmp returning
> from generated TCG code because that code does not support
> stack unwinding.
>
> * Asynchronous connect call. Obviously TCP connect was
> synchronous with earlier versions. Now it can also fail,
> but Windows does not set errno (slirp expects errno code).
> This results in buggy networking with all Windows versions
> of QEMU (any connect will fail).

Could somebody add some notes to the 'Known issues' section
of the changelog summarising the problems, please (whether
it affects all Windows build environments or only some,
whether this is a regression or not, etc):
http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.4#Known_issues

thanks
-- PMM