Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qemu-ga] qga: Make qemu-ga compile statically for Windows

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 5:11 PM Sameeh Jubran <address@hidden> wrote:

> Attempting to compile qemu-ga statically as follows for Windows causes
> the following error:
>
> Compilation:
>     ./configure --disable-docs --target-list=x86_64-softmmu \
>     --cross-prefix=x86_64-w64-mingw32- --static \
>     --enable-guest-agent-msi --with-vss-sdk=/path/to/VSSSDK72
>
>     make -j8 qemu-ga
>
> Error:
>     path/to/qemu/stubs/error-printf.c:7: undefined reference to
> `__imp_g_test_config_vars'
>     collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>     Makefile:444: recipe for target 'qemu-ga.exe' failed
>     make: *** [qemu-ga.exe] Error 1
>

weird, I don't get this error on fedora 25 (but I have no vss-sdk, is that
related?).


>
> This is caused by a bug in the pkg-config file for glib as it doesn't
> define
> GLIB_STATIC_COMPILATION for pkg-config --static.
>

If that's a bug in glib, it would be nice to have a link to a bug report.


>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Sameeh Jubran <address@hidden>
>
---
>  configure | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index b9a30cf..6f7b460 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -4138,7 +4138,7 @@ int main(void) { return VSS_CTX_BACKUP; }
>  EOF
>    if compile_prog "$vss_win32_include" "" ; then
>      guest_agent_with_vss="yes"
> -    QEMU_CFLAGS="$QEMU_CFLAGS $vss_win32_include"
> +    QEMU_CFLAGS="-DGLIB_STATIC_COMPILATION $QEMU_CFLAGS
> $vss_win32_include"
>      libs_qga="-lole32 -loleaut32 -lshlwapi -lstdc++
> -Wl,--enable-stdcall-fixup $libs_qga"
>      qga_vss_provider="qga/vss-win32/qga-vss.dll qga/vss-win32/qga-vss.tlb"
>    else
> --
> 2.9.3
>
>
> --
Marc-André Lureau