Re: [Qemu-devel] [5524] Fix windows build after migration changes

[Anthony Liguori]

Paul Brook wrote:
> On Friday 24 October 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
> > Robert Riebisch wrote:
> >     
> > > Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > >       
> > > > That would be great.  I don't know that we want to go on the current
> > > > directory though.  There's a Windows API for finding Program Files.
> > > > That's probably what we want to do.
> > > >         
> > > Why do you want to look for "Program Files" instead? Just let QEMU
> > > determine its own folder via GetModuleFileName() and look there for the
> > > BIOS files.
> > >       
> > That's not the same as CWD and is probably the right thing to do.
> >     
>
> We could also do the same thing for Linux et al.
>   

On Linux, I guess we could readlink(/proc/self/exe), but I don't know 
what we could do on other OSes.  In general, argv[0] isn't very useful.

What I had suggested to someone a while back, was that first, we should 
refactor things so that we can try to read all of the bios/keymap files 
from a number of paths.  That way, we could try the current path, the -L 
path, the path of the exe, etc.   The only problem with that it can 
become confusing trying to figure out what bios you are using.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paul
>