Re: [Qemu-devel] non linux host?

["Herbert Pötzl" <herbert@13thfloor.at>]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 04:07:09PM +0200, Gerhard Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 01:27:32PM +0200, Jocelyn Mayer wrote:
> > > Can qemu compile on a non-linux host? will it run? is it possible to 
> > > make it do this? or does the basic design of qemu make this impossible. 
> > > I'm running MacOSX (mach kernel w/ most of freebsd on top). is this any 
> > > kind of possible? :-)
> > I tried to compile qemu on MacOS X some times ago.
> > There are some headers to adjust to make the core compile.
> > This can be done in a portable way, for all BSD flavors and should be
> > easy.
> 
> Which headers are these? When I try to compile it, there seem to be some
> elf-headers needed.
> 
> > But the syscall and ioctl handlers must be rewrote.
> > This can be quite long and not so funny.
> > But there's no real problem to adapt it,
> > except that it hasn't been done yet !
> 
> in http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2003-07/msg00084.html Fabrice
> said, that ELF binutils/gcc would be needed to compile some parts of qemu.
> How to get ELF binutils/gcc in darwin? One would also need an
> elf-compatible-libc to compile things with it, if I'm taken right.

what about the Fink Project? 

best,
Herbert

> > Just have to find the courageous one who'll do the work :-)
> 
> How about you? ;-)
> 
> -- 
> Ciao,
>   Gerhard
> 
> 
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