On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 03:58:19PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 at 04:07, Pierrick Bouvier > <pierrick.bouv...@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > MacOS and Linux are straightforward, but Windows needs a bit more > > details. > > > > Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouv...@linaro.org> > > We have documentation on the wiki currently about how to > build on various platforms: > > https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Linux > https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Mac > https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32 > > I agree that we ought to move this into the main documentation. > Some of the information in those wiki pages is probably > out of date, but some of it looks like useful extra detail > that we could incorporate here.
Also, as that wiki notes: 32 bit Linux target on a 64 bit Linux host would be useful for build bots > > --- > > docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 4 +- > > docs/devel/build-system.rst | 100 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > I don't think this is the best place to put this information. > "How do I build from source?" is a question that most beginning > developers and some end users will have. The information in > build-system.rst is mostly about the internals of our > build system and how to modify it, which is a more niche topic. > > I would be inclined to put this in a new file, maybe even > in docs/about/ rather than docs/devel. > > thanks > -- PMM
