Re: [Qemu-devel] Problems with native Mingw-w64 build

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 27/03/17 21:19, Stefan Weil wrote:

> Am 27.03.2017 um 07:48 schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland:
>> Right, I see cygwin has a much newer version of glib available which
>> explains how the builds are produced.
>>
>> What was the exact issue with global symbols which prevents the
>> pre-built Win64 binaries from glib > 2.22 being used? Or is that
>> information now obsolete?
> 
> I remember a problem caused by a change in Mingw gcc name mangling,
> maybe that's what you a referring to. That does not apply to the
> libraries distributed with Cygwin.
> 
> There is a new problem with cross compiling on Cygwin caused by latest
> changes in configure. I have just sent a patch to fix that regression.

I ended up starting again from scratch last night and trying the build
with MSYS2 instead. MSYS2 has really improved since I last looked at it
a couple of years back, and I was able to get a working build
environment all set and working without any issues, i.e. set up the
build environment, run configure, make and make install.

I did make a few notes during installation so if people think it's
useful I can work through them again and come up with something suitable
for the wiki.


ATB,

Mark.