Re: [Qemu-devel] MINGW: Unable to link multiboot.img + strnlen missing

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Bartlomiej Celary wrote:
> Hi,
> Just tried latest pull from git and noticed the "cannot perform PE
> operations on non PE output file 'multiboot.img'." error.
>   

Someone posted a snippet in a thread but I can't find it.  If someone 
posts a top level patch, I'll apply it.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Is there any agreement on how to fix the linker issue under mingw?
>
> Thanks,
> Bartek Celary
>
> 2009/7/1 Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>:
>   
>> On 01.07.2009, at 17:52, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Why can't we just exclude mingw from building option roms? Let's just
>>>> treat it like any non-x86 platform, so it takes the binary blobs.
>>>>         
>>> The signrom problem is independent on mingw32.  This makefile is doing
>>> something that the rest of the build system is careful not to do: compile a
>>> binary and run it as part of the build process.
>>>
>>> That's why hxtool is not written in C.
>>>       
>> Well, the optionrom directory is a first of its kind: Full source to a
>> binary blob.
>> So would you prefer to have signrom be in sh? :-)
>>
>> Maybe I could come up with a version in brainfuck though ... hum
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>