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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Compiling qemu as position-independent code on an
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Cc: Paul.Robinson@scisys.co.uk

Hello Paul,
I also need to use qemu as a shared library, so i was wandering
whether you had any luck with this?

On 03/11/06, Paul Robinson <Paul.Robinson@scisys.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm trying to use parts of qemu in an application that must be compiled as a
> shared library (i.e. a .so file).
> The code must be compiled with the -fPIC option otherwise the linker refuses
> to create a .so file
> but doing this causes dyngen to stop with the error:
> ../dyngen -o op.h op.o
> dyngen: unsupported X86_64 relocation (9)
>
> In dyngen-exec.h, if I change
> extern int __op_param1, __op_param2, __op_param3;
> to
> static int __op_param1, __op_param2, __op_param3;
> then dyngen stops with
> dyngen: unsupported X86_64 relocation (4)
>
> I suspect that I need to resort to assembly language (as has been done for
> alpha hosts).
>
> My question is:
> Has anyone already done this ? (so I don't have to re-invent the wheel).
>
> The nearest I've found so far is Johannes Schindelin's "Porting QEMU to [a]
> new CPU" guide.
>
> Regards,
> Paul R.
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