AW: Integration of qemu-img

[<janine.schneider@fau.de>]

Hy again,

okay so now we have an easy way out just in case.
But I still want to build an DLL and/or a shared library for integration into the tool. I want the tool to be platform independent and I was already able to build qemu-img as cross build with mingw64. Does anybody have experience in building a qemu library or tried it already?
The tool I want to integrate qemu in is published under GPL itself. And if I am able to build qemu as library I will share it with the community and everybody interested in having it.

Best,
Janine

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> 
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. April 2020 12:41
An: janine.schneider@fau.de
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>; qemu block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>
Betreff: Re: Integration of qemu-img

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 11:20 AM <janine.schneider@fau.de> wrote:
> this requires the user of the application to install qemu first right?
> If this is the case then this is unfortunately not an option. The user 
> shall not be bothered with installing anything else then the tool.

Hi Janine,
Please use Reply-All to keep the email CC list in tact.  That way qemu-devel@nongnu.org will receive our replies and the discussion will stay on the mailing list.  Thanks!

It's common for applications to consist of more than a single executable file.  They could have shared libraries, data files, or other executables like qemu-img.exe.  You can distribute qemu-img.exe together with your application as part of a zip file or installer.

Regardless of whether you ship qemu-img.exe or build a library, please check QEMU's software license so that you can follow the terms of the GPL open source license.

Stefan