Re: Debian MinGW cross compilation (was: Re: [PULL 2/3] qga-win32: Add support for NVME but type)

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 03/06/2022 15.09, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Am 03.06.22 um 14:56 schrieb Thomas Huth:
> 
>> On 24/05/2022 15.38, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 03:28:37PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> ...
>>>>
>>>> Daniel, do you remember whether we supported Debian for MinGW
>>>> cross-compilation in the past?
>>>
>>> At one time we used to have Debian with the 3rd party 'mxe' builds
>>> of mingw added. It broke periodically and we deleted it in the
>>> end. It wasn't adding value over what Fedora mingw could provide
>>> as both more or less tracked the same versions of software in
>>> their mingw packages.
>>
>> I wonder whether anybody still tried to compile with this mxe repo in 
>> recent times...?
>> Should we adjust our support statement and just mention Fedora there? 
>> Otherwise we should maybe explicitly mention MXE there next to "Debian", 
>> too, so that people don't get the impression that QEMU can be compiled 
>> with a vanilla MinGW installation on Debian?
>>
>>  Thomas
> 
> 
> My QEMU for Windows builds are all done on Debian. They use the cross tools 
> which are provided in the normal Debian distribution. I don't use the (few) 
> cross libraries from Debian.
> 
> Until end of last year, I added library packages from Cygwin (plus a few 
> self compiled libraries, for example for braille support). See 
> https://qemu.weilnetz.de/debian/.
> 
> In 2022 I switched to using the library packages from msys (I still have to 
> write some documentation for that).

Ok, thanks for the info. Seems like there are multiple ways to get the 
missing packages for the MinGW installation on Debian, so let's simply keep 
the support statement in the current shape.

  Thomas