On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 03:52:45PM +0200, Konstantin Kostiuk wrote: > Hi All, > > I cross-compiled qemu-ga from current master branch > (825b96dbcee23d134b691fc75618b59c5f53da32) and found strange behavior. > > Configure CLI: > ./configure --disable-docs --disable-system --disable-user > --cross-prefix=x86_64-w64-mingw32- --enable-guest-agent > --disable-guest-agent-msi --disable-qga-vss > Build CLI: > make -j8 qemu-ga > > Linker wrote the following information but exited with 0 code: > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/14.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld: > qga/qemu-ga.exe:/4: section below image base > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/14.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld: > qga/qemu-ga.exe:/24: section below image base > > As a result, this binary failed to start on Windows without any details, > just a message that the application is not compatible. I also tried to run > it with wine and got the error: > > wine: failed to start > L"Z:\\home\\user\\Documents\\repos\\qemu\\build\\qga\\qemu-ga.exe" > Application could not be started, or no application associated with the > specified file. > ShellExecuteEx failed: Bad EXE format for > Z:\home\user\Documents\repos\qemu\build\qga\qemu-ga.exe. > > I bisected the tree and found the commit that caused the problem: > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/563b1a35ed1f1151505d4fe5f723827d1b3fd4bc > > Adding --disable-split-debug to the configure CLI fixes the issue. > > $ x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc --version > x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc (GCC) 14.2.0 > > My question is, is this expected behavior or is this a bug?
Your configure args don't include "--enable-debug", so I would not have expected -gsplit-dwarf to have been enabled, so I'm surprised that commit casued a problem. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
