Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] testing: Build WHPX enabled binaries

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 8/4/20 8:55 AM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Am 04.08.20 um 08:43 schrieb Thomas Huth:
> 
>> On 03/08/2020 22.25, Stefan Weil wrote:
>>> We can add a CI pipeline on Microsoft infrastructure by using a GitHub
>>> action.
>> Sorry for being ignorant, but how does that solve the legal questions
>> just because it is running on GitHub instead of a different CI?
>>
>>  Thomas
>>
> 
> Sorry, I though that would be clear by looking at the included shell script.
> 
> The build does not use the Microsoft SDK. It gets the required header
> files from Mingw-w64. They added them in git master.

Oh, so we can do that with GitLab too now, we don't need to rely on the
GitHub 'Actions' CI in particular, right?

> 
> See
> https://github.com/stweil/qemu/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.sh#L50
> for code details.
> 
> It's still shameful that MS is forcing developers to waste time
> rewriting API headers, just because the MS legal departments are not
> able to understand the needs of Open Source development.

There has be a big switch from Microsoft toward Open Source, I attended
some of there talk at the Open Source Summit in 2018. Maybe we simply
haven't contacted the right persons to make the changes...?

> 
> Stefan
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