> There has been some attempts to make slirp a seperate project in the past. > (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg01092.html) > Unfortunately, they forked from QEMU and didn't provide enough > compatibility for QEMU to make use of it (in particular, vmstate > handling was removed, they lost git history etc). Furthermore, they > are not maintained as far as I can see. > > I would propose to make slirp a seperate project, that can initially > be used by QEMU as a submodule, keeping Makefile.objs until a proper > shared library with stability guarantees etc is ready..
Hmm, I'd skip the submodule step if the long-term plan is to use slirp as pkg-config detectable dependency (like most other libs). cheers, Gerd
