Re: [Qemu-devel] NSIS - including DLL dependencies for Windows

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 10:49:11AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 02:45:13PM +1100, Adam Baxter wrote:
> > Hi,
> > How do I gather and include the required DLLs (SDL, zlib etc) in the NSIS
> > installer? (and also in a standalone build to be zipped up, but that's less
> > important)
> > 
> > I noticed the wiki doesn't really mention bundling dependencies anywhere.
> > 
> > The official unofficial windows builds are documented at
> > https://qemu.weilnetz.de/FAQ but this doesn't cover building the actual
> > installer.
> 
> Yeah, this is a pretty major ommision in QEMU's build rules for the NSIS
> installer making it pretty much useless as is. We really need to expand
> it so that it can resolve the dlls that qemu .exe's need, locate them
> on the host and bundle them into the installer automatically.
> 
> It seems we can get a list of deps for an .exe using 
> 
> $ winedump  -j import /path/to/binary.exe  | grep offset | grep dll | awk 
> '{print $3}'

FYI, I re-discovered a way to do this without needing wine, just plain
binutils

  x86_64-w64-mingw32-objdump -p /path/to/binary.exe | grep "DLL Name" | awk 
'{print $3}'


Regards,
Daniel
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