Re: [PATCH 0/6] build contrib/plugins using meson

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 8:04 PM Pierrick Bouvier
<pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org> wrote:
> > One argument from moving contrib/plugins to meson is that the Windows
> > case depends on libqemu_plugin_api.a which is built with meson(*);
> > that said, libqemu_plugin_api.a should be installed - which would
> > justify it being used from an "external" makefile.
>
> You need meson to build this lib in the first place, so I guess that
> 99.9% of the people writing a plugin will have a qemu source tree (with
> access to plugin headers), and first compile the lib.

Note that the lib is built at configure time, not Make time.  It's not
a normal library.

> I am not convinced by the scenario where people build this out of tree
> to be honest, but I may be wrong.

The idea is that people copy the Makefile, and yeah I'm not sure
either if they do it but it can be useful.

Paolo