Comments on: Building MinGW32 Qemu on Linux (or anything else I guess)

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 22:17:12 +0000

In reply to Rugxulo.

Lucky you, I’ve had nothing but issues with those builds… I’ve suspected because they dont follow release milestones, but a given time period.

QEMU is a nightmare to build for windows.

By: Rugxulo

Rugxulo — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:44:39 +0000

http://qemu.weilnetz.de/ is cross-compiled for Windows, and I’ve been using 2.4.0 (and formerly 2.2.0) without problems. I’m not energetic enough to try rebuilding it myself, though, but presumably he has some useful patches for your use.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 03:49:58 +0000

In reply to Gregg.

i got it to work. The configure script didnt find some stuff, and screwed up a bunch more. I hate make systems that hide from the user what they are doing, because we are all dumb end users.

But after seeing what nonsense the compiler and linker were being fed, i have an exe that booted MS-DOS… it needs a bit more help, i bet the adlib is still disabled.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 21:49:17 +0000

I can’t remember what month and year, but there’s an issue of Linux Journal which describes the problems of cross-compiling, that is making a Linux program work via building it on Cygwin, say, and then confirming it works on a Fedora platform, say.

You might search through their lists of articles of the years.