Re: [Qemu-devel] MINGW: Unable to link multiboot.img + strnlen missing

[Bartlomiej Celary <bartlomiej.celary@gmail.com>]

Hi,
Just tried latest pull from git and noticed the "cannot perform PE
operations on non PE output file 'multiboot.img'." error.

Is there any agreement on how to fix the linker issue under mingw?

Thanks,
Bartek Celary

2009/7/1 Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>:
>
> On 01.07.2009, at 17:52, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Well, the optionrom directory is a first of its kind: Full source to a
> binary blob.
> So would you prefer to have signrom be in sh? :-)
>
> Maybe I could come up with a version in brainfuck though ... hum
>
> Alex
>
>