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From: Roy Tam <roytam@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:58:01 +0800
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] Add hard build dependency on glib
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>

2011/3/23 Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Roy Tam <roytam@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2011/3/23 Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>:
>>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>=
 wrote:
>>>> GLib is an extremely common library that has a portable thread impleme=
ntation
>>>> along with tons of other goodies.
>>>>
>>>> GLib and GObject have a fantastic amount of infrastructure we can leve=
rage in
>>>> QEMU including an object oriented programming infrastructure.
>>>>
>>>> Short term, it has a very nice thread pool implementation that we coul=
d leverage
>>>> in something like virtio-9p. =A0It also has a test harness implementat=
ion that
>>>> this series will use.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> =A0Makefile =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0| =A0 =A02 ++
>>>> =A0Makefile.objs =A0 | =A0 =A02 ++
>>>> =A0Makefile.target | =A0 =A01 +
>>>> =A0configure =A0 =A0 =A0 | =A0 13 +++++++++++++
>>>> =A04 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> Yes, please. =A0I'd like to use glib to make simpletrace portable.
>>>
>>> To paraphrase the saying about non-trivial C programs and LISP interpre=
ters:
>>>
>>> "In every cross-platform C program there is a glib."
>>>
>>> Stefan
>>>
>>>
>>
>> So, breaking win32 support again?
>
> Can you please explain the win32 issue with glib?
>
> Stefan
>

I think I have to change my words. Glib works in win32, but adding
Glib to QEMU will bloat the binary size. It adds more dependency on
building and the result binary. I wonder if it is a must to add it.

Roy