Thanks for the reply. I will try to cross-compile via cygwin seeing as I've had no luck installing and configuring mingw64.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 09/15/2015 02:10 PM, Stefan Weil wrote: > >> > >> CC qga/commands-win32.o > >>> qga/commands-win32.c: In function ‘qmp_guest_set_user_password’: > >>> qga/commands-win32.c:1254:55: warning: passing argument 2 of > >>> ‘g_base64_decode’ from incompatible pointer type > >>> rawpasswddata = (char *)g_base64_decode(password, &rawpasswdlen); > >>> ^ > > Ugh. Compiling for cygwin should favor POSIX interfaces, not > commands-win32. The build is failing because it isn't even correctly > deciding which files it should be compiling. > > > > compiling with cygwin is unsupported. I suggest using MinGW-w64 > > (which also works for cross compilations under Linux). > > Remember, cygwin is itself an emulation layer - you are emulating POSIX > interfaces on top of Windows; which, while making the environment easier > to port to, also makes the environment slower. qemu targets mingw and > not cygwin because qemu is an emulator and already slow enough, without > needing another layer of emulation thrown in the mix. > > That said, if you want to port qemu to cygwin and supply patches, I'm > more than willing to help review them. It's just that right now, it's > not my personal itch to write such patches, and that the qemu community > currently favors mingw rather than cygwin. > > Also, cygwin comes with cross-compilers, so you can still use your > cygwin setup to compile qemu for mingw (although doing the cross-compile > on a true Linux box will be faster). > > -- > Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > >
