Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Enable clang build on Windows

[Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>]

On 2/18/25 22:39, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Am 19.02.25 um 00:17 schrieb Pierrick Bouvier:
> 
>> On 2/18/25 12:59, Stefan Weil wrote:
>>>
>>> I could run a QEMU cross compile on Debian with the llvm toolchain and
>>> msys2 clangarm64 packages installed with pacman. The resulting installer
>>> is here:
>>>
>>
>> Have you installed the msys2 clangarm64 packages on a windows machine
>> first, and then copy them to your Debian machine?
> 
> 
> No, the packages were directly installed on Linux like in this older
> script which shows how this can be done for i686 and x86-64::
> 
> https://github.com/stweil/qemu/blob/master/.github/workflows/pacman.sh
> 
> Newer Debian distributions already provide a package for pacman which
> simply needs the right configuration. For older distributions I had to
> build pacman first.
> 
> I should also have noted that I used a Linux aarch64 build host, so its
> binutils were able to find the DLL dependencies. This requirement will
> be fixed with a pure Python script for the same purpose.
> 

Oh excellent! I wondered if it was possible or not to do this (didn't 
know if some post install hooks try to execute native code).
Thanks for the link.

> 
>>
>>> https://qemu.weilnetz.de/aarch64/
>>>
>>> The only tool which was missing and which I had to build before running
>>> the QEMU build is aarch64-w64-mingw32-windmc.
>>>
>>> It looks like the NSIS installer is i386 code, so I don't know whether
>>> it can be used on Windows for aarch64.
>>>
>>> I also have no suitable Windows host for testing the binaries, so no
>>> test was done.