From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] build-sys: do no support modules on Windows
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:51:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37c62488-5f8e-0d4f-bb30-eb3a2a79ff96@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190718120413.27678-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
On 18/07/19 14:04, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Our module system does not support Windows, because it relies on
> resolving symbols from the main executable.
>
> If there is enough interest in supporting modules on Windows, we could
> generate an import library for the executable and link with it:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15454968/dll-plugin-that-uses-functions-defined-in-the-main-executable
>
> However, there is a small chicken egg problem, since the executable
> link and exports extra symbols needed by the library...
Yeah, with Meson it would be possible to do this easily, but for now
let's just drop support for modules on Windows.
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-18 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-18 12:04 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] build-sys: do no support modules on Windows Marc-André Lureau
2019-07-18 12:49 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-07-18 13:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-18 12:51 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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