Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Fix cygwin build and simplify feature detection in 'configure' script

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:26:33AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> malc wrote:
> > I believe Anthony tests it on Linux via cross-mingw.
> 
> For other projects, I find cross-mingw under Linux runs ./configure
> and compiles about 10 times faster than Cygwin (for ./configure) +
> Mingw (compiler) native on the same machine inside KVM.
> 
> I'm not sure if that's KVM being slow at running Windows guest
> processes, or if what I've heard about Cygwin being slow to spawn
> processes is the reason.
> 
> Either way, cross-mingw is great for Windows development :-)
> 
> (But not 64-bit yet).

There is a mingw64 project that is under active development that aims
to support both Win32 and Win64 APIs. It may well already be good 
enough to test QEMU builds for Win64, though I've not had personal
experiance of it


Regards,
Daniel
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