On 11/4/24 08:08, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
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out of date, but some of it looks like useful extra detail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
IMHO, and regarding my previous message, I don't think adding details
about cross compilation would help new comers.
Cross compilation is specific, and most of the people who do it know how
to do it. Especially when setting up a build bot.
In more, we already have a docker container for this use case
(debian-i686-cross), without needing to play with host machine.
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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
