Re: MSYS2 and libfdt

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 05:57:29PM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi Thomas
> 
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:31 PM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 19/01/2023 09.56, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 12:31 PM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>    Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> in some spare minutes, I started playing with a patch to try to remove the
> > >> dtc submodule from the QEMU git repository - according to
> > >> https://repology.org/project/dtc/versions our supported build platforms
> > >> should now all provide the minimum required version.
> > >>
> > >> However, I'm hitting a problem with Windows / MSYS2 in the CI jobs: The
> > >> libfdt is packaged as part of the dtc package there:
> > >>
> > >>    https://packages.msys2.org/package/dtc
> > >>
> > >> ... meaning that it is added with a usr/include and usr/lib path prefix
> > >> instead of mingw64/include and mingw64/lib like other packages are using
> > >> (see e.g.
> > >> https://packages.msys2.org/package/mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib?repo=mingw64). Thus
> > >> the compiler does not find the library there. Also there does not seem to be
> > >> a difference between a i686 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) variant available
> > >> here? Does anybody know how libfdt is supposed to be used with MSYS2 ?
> > >
> > > The msys environment is a bit special, it's not an environment for a
> > > particular build target, my understanding is that it holds common
> > > files/tools.
> > >
> > > dtc should be added to https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages for it
> > > to be available as a target dependency.
> >
> > Do you have already any experience in requesting a new package there? Could
> > you maybe do it? ... since I don't have a proper MinGW installation here, it
> > would be very cumbersome for me right now.
> >
> 
> Here you go (although let see what CI has to say):
> https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/pull/15168
> 
> The msys2 maintainers are usually very quick and helpful, in my experience.

And it merged 1 day after you posted it. So yes, the msys2 maintainers
are indeed very quick & helpful :-)

So in theory we can try to drop the submodule for dtc now


With regards,
Daniel
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