I've been trying to build QEMU source directly with MinGW. The compile/link works but there are tons of warnings (mostly Wformat). Once I try to run the binaries in Windows though, I quickly hit access violations once the HD image is mounted. I've tested on the linux-0.2.img.bz2 so that I can be consistent with others. The violations bounce around based on the image and emulation. I've tried with -nographic to try to rule out SDL.dll. I'm at a loss, and beginning to wonder if 100's of Wformat errors need to be patched one by one to have a run-able windows binary.
What I'm confused by is that both qemu.org (ref1) and wikibooks.org (ref2) seem to imply that there are no special MinGW patches. I've also found many sites hosting valid QEMU win32 binaries like omledom.com (ref3). I've even ensured that my ./configure settings match theirs (omledom), but of course I have no way to know if they are compiliing FROM windows FOR windows, or FROM linux FOR windows. Here's is an abridged list of my process. install cygwin to for wget and unzip, though nothing is in the PATH varable. wget mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe wget python-2.6.6.msi wget gtk+-bundle_2.24.10-20120208_win32.zip wget SDL-devel-1.2.15-mingw32.tar.gz wget qemu-1.4.1.tar.bz2 wget linux-0.2.img.bz2 install mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe install python-2.6.6.msi unzip gtk+-bundle_2.24.10-20120208_win32.zip to c:\MinGW unzip SDL-devel-1.2.15-mingw32.tar.gz to c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\src unzip qemu-1.4.1.tar.bz2 to c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\src decompress linux-0.2.img.bz2 to c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bld launch msys prompt && cd /usr/src/SDL && make native launch msys prompt && cd /usr/src/qemu ./configure --python=c:/Python26/python.exe --prefix=/usr/bld make && make install && cd /usr/bld ./qemu-system-i386.exe linux-0.2.img Observe an access violation in qemu-system-i386.exe within 5 seconds. Am I the only one compiling qemu FROM windows FOR windows? Also, just for grins, I replace my copy of qemu-system-i386.exe with the one from omledom and things work without any issues. I've also tried the qemu 1.5 repositories and this weeks .git snapshot. All fail with similar errors. I've also done this on two machines, an x86 Windows Vista system and an x64 Windows 8 system. Same results on both. ref1: http://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32 ref2: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/MinGW ref3: http://www.omledom.com/ Long explanation at: http://screamingmonkeys.blogspot.com/2013/05/return-to-linux-compiling-qemu-with.html -Dan
