On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 8:04 PM Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouv...@linaro.org> wrote: > > One argument from moving contrib/plugins to meson is that the Windows > > case depends on libqemu_plugin_api.a which is built with meson(*); > > that said, libqemu_plugin_api.a should be installed - which would > > justify it being used from an "external" makefile. > > You need meson to build this lib in the first place, so I guess that > 99.9% of the people writing a plugin will have a qemu source tree (with > access to plugin headers), and first compile the lib.
Note that the lib is built at configure time, not Make time. It's not a normal library. > I am not convinced by the scenario where people build this out of tree > to be honest, but I may be wrong. The idea is that people copy the Makefile, and yeah I'm not sure either if they do it but it can be useful. Paolo
