From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MM26f-0007nG-Ih for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:52:21 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MM26a-0007kQ-SK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:52:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40326 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MM26a-0007kG-MW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:52:16 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f185.google.com ([209.85.222.185]:62219) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MM26a-0004aP-7q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:52:16 -0400 Received: by pzk15 with SMTP id 15so810387pzk.4 for ; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A4B862B.2020302@codemonkey.ws> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:52:11 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] MINGW: Unable to link multiboot.img + strnlen missing References: <97c31bd80907010604n72803d55qb4b79fb2d42847ce@mail.gmail.com> <4A4B637A.9070804@codemonkey.ws> <365C1EAE-D017-432C-A208-C93E00708A22@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <365C1EAE-D017-432C-A208-C93E00708A22@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: Bartlomiej Celary , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Alexander Graf wrote: > Why can't we just exclude mingw from building option roms? Let's just > treat it like any non-x86 platform, so it takes the binary blobs. The signrom problem is independent on mingw32. This makefile is doing something that the rest of the build system is careful not to do: compile a binary and run it as part of the build process. That's why hxtool is not written in C. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Alex >