From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlsYq-0003KI-6E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:05:54 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlsYQ-0003DZ-0t for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:05:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlsYO-0003B8-RI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:05:24 -0400 Received: from [69.17.117.27] (helo=mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DlsMx-0007TP-5m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:53:35 -0400 Received: from dsl081-088-222.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.111.2]) ([64.81.88.222]) (envelope-sender ) by mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Jun 2005 17:47:58 -0000 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image From: "John R. Hogerhuis" In-Reply-To: <42BC4084.5000304@astolat-it.co.uk> References: <20050621042844.GA13691@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <002001c5767e$818808a0$334d21d1@organiza3bfb0e> <20050621194553.GA3898@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <42B87961.4080206@astolat-it.co.uk> <42BC4084.5000304@astolat-it.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:48:59 -0700 Message-Id: <1119635339.23680.181.camel@aragorn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: jhoger@pobox.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 18:19 +0100, Tim Walker wrote: > Is this a bad idea for some reason, or is it just unnecessary? Some > feedback would be appreciated. > It's a cool idea, I think. I went through the mingw thing a while back and it's a PITA. It would be nice to have known working build platform preconfigured that anyone can download. I imagine the speed wouldn't be fantastic though. Another possibility: To make it faster you could integrate the build into a Live CD like Damn Small Linux (it can easily remaster itself with gcc and whatever other Debian components you need to build QEMU). Then any Windows user should be able to boot DSL, run a script to get latest sources from CVS and build QEMU for Windows saving the .EXE to their Windows partition. BTW, one problem with WIndows is that QEMU developers do not have access to Windows licenses. Might be nice for non-programmers who want to contribute to donate old licensed copies of Windows for testing work. -- John.