Re: help compilation qemu

[Juan carlos Rebate <nerus492@gmail.com>]

Yes, pkconfig is among the requirements although today in 2020 that package
is not in cygwin, due to the scarce documentation in this regard, I will
try to see if a cross-compilation is feasible.

El sáb., 2 may. 2020 23:47, Vanda Vodkamilkevich <
vanda.vodkamilkevich@gmail.com> escribió:

> Le sam. 2 mai 2020 à 22:46, Juan carlos Rebate via Cygwin <
> cygwin@cygwin.com> a écrit :
>
>> I can't use msys2 because when I use the Syu command it is not able to
>> resolve the download url,The only missing component is
>> mingw64-686-pkconfig, all other components if they are in cygwin
>>
>> El sáb., 2 may. 2020 22:24, Maarten Hoes <hoes.maarten@gmail.com>
>> escribió:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have no personal experience with this, but when I take a look at the
>> > QEMU wiki, it seems that :
>> >
>> >
>> > [1]
>> > Builds with cygwin are not really supported.
>> > https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32#Native_builds_with_Cygwin
>> >
>> >
>> > [2]
>> > A supported way of building QEMU on Windows is with MSYS2
>> > https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32#Native_builds_with_MSYS2
>> >
>> >
>> > Hope this helps.
>> >
>> >
>> > - Maarten
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 9:31 PM Juan carlos Rebate via Cygwin <
>> > cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello, it is the first time that I write here, sorry for the possible
>> >> malfunctions of the mailing list.I am interested in compiling qemu with
>> >> cygwin and the documentation is scarce, it only indicates that the
>> >> environment is complete but it does not indicate all the necessary
>> >> components,The components that they mention are not available in
>> cygwin,
>> >> for example Mingw64-686-pkconfig is not included in the repositories,
>> >> could
>> >> someone give me a complete manual? Thank you very much in advance
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>
> Hi,
>
> In the past I succeeded in compiling Qemu with cygwin. Last update of the
> page http://lassauge.free.fr/qemu/) for this is a bit old (2016! ) but I
> could dig in my backup flash drive to find the real last time if needed...
>
> In the list of dependencies there was in fact  Mingw64-686-pkconfig (which
> should indicate that the package was existing at time).
>
> Sadly the PC containing the development environment I used for Qemu is at
> my work place and not available actually (up to May 11th) due to the
> lockdown :(
>
> Eric.
>