Re: [RFC PATCH v3 2/5] rust: add bindgen step as a meson dependency

[Pierrick Bouvier]

The ctor is not run, but, interesting point, there is the same problem 
on Linux :)

Can you please confirm with a clean build this work on your machine with 
this v3, and report exact configure and run commands you use?

Thanks,
Pierrick

On 6/29/24 01:06, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:12, Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org> wrote:
> > I've been able to build rust device on windows, with a few tweaks
> > needed.
> >
> > - specificy the target for libclang (used by bindgen), which targets
> > MSVC by default (so different set of headers)
> > - additional headers (libclang searches its own header with a relative
> > path instead of absolute)
> > - additional windows libs that must be linked in final executable
> >
> > However, even tough I can build the executable, I get this error:
> > $ ./build/qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt
> > C:\w\qemu\build\qemu-system-aarch64.exe: unknown type 'x-pl011-rust'
> >
> > Any idea of what could be missing here?
>
> Sounds like either the rust lib is not linked to the final binary (which
> you can confirm if you look at the included symbols and don't see
> anything with rust origin) or the constructor decorated with
> #[cfg_attr(target_os = "windows", link_section = ".CRT$XCU"] is not
> linked properly (you can add a puts() and see if it's invoked or add a
> breakpoint in gdb)