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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Inspired by some comments by Anthony Liguori yesterday, I got qemu to
> compile using the Fedora MinGW cross-compiler[1].
>
> There are some problems introduced by what I think is new code (the
> migration code), so I just hacked those bits out.  Not a good fix, but
> the patch is attached anyhow.
>
> After installing the MinGW packages in Fedora[2], the command to
> compile qemu is:
>
>   PATH=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin:$PATH \
>   PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig \
>   ./configure \
>     --cross-prefix=i686-pc-mingw32- \
>     --host-cc=i686-pc-mingw32-gcc \
>     --cpu=i386 \
>     --disable-gcc-check \
>     --audio-drv-list=
>   make
>
> This produces Windows binaries (eg. qemu-system-x86_64.exe) which work
> to some extent under Wine.  In fact I was able to boot a 64 bit Fedora
> 9 guest up to the point where it runs initrd, at which point qemu
> crashes somewhere.
>
> I didn't test the binaries on real Windows.
>   

I've got a better fix locally that I'll commit.  It doesn't get 
migration working on Windows but it at least compiles.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Rich.
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW
> [2] http://www.annexia.org/tmp/mingw/fedora-9/
>
>