On 8/4/20 9:42 AM, Stefan Weil wrote: > Am 04.08.20 um 09:23 schrieb Philippe Mathieu-Daudé: > >> On 8/4/20 8:55 AM, Stefan Weil wrote: >>> Am 04.08.20 um 08:43 schrieb Thomas Huth: >>> >>>> On 03/08/2020 22.25, Stefan Weil wrote: >>>>> We can add a CI pipeline on Microsoft infrastructure by using a GitHub >>>>> action. >>>> Sorry for being ignorant, but how does that solve the legal questions >>>> just because it is running on GitHub instead of a different CI? >>>> >>>> Thomas >>>> >>> Sorry, I though that would be clear by looking at the included shell script. >>> >>> The build does not use the Microsoft SDK. It gets the required header >>> files from Mingw-w64. They added them in git master. >> Oh, so we can do that with GitLab too now, we don't need to rely on the >> GitHub 'Actions' CI in particular, right? > > > That's right. The build script was written for Ubuntu, so depending on > the distribution used for GitLab CI it will need some modifications. If > GitLab already has a recent Mingw-w64, it might be sufficient to fix the > case of the header file names. Mingw-w64 uses winhvplatform.h while QEMU > expects WinHvPlatform.h and so on. I used symbolic links to add the > camel case filenames. > > >>> See >>> https://github.com/stweil/qemu/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.sh#L50 >>> for code details. >>> >>> It's still shameful that MS is forcing developers to waste time >>> rewriting API headers, just because the MS legal departments are not >>> able to understand the needs of Open Source development. >> There has be a big switch from Microsoft toward Open Source, I attended >> some of there talk at the Open Source Summit in 2018. Maybe we simply >> haven't contacted the right persons to make the changes...? > > > Maybe, but it is difficult to find the right person in a large company > like MS, and legal departments are often somehow special.
Sunil seems quite active with the WHPX development, and the section is listed as "Supported [my Microsoft]" in MAINTAINERS. I'm confident we have someone else able to help use finding the right contacts in the company :) > > And yes, they learned that Open Source can help them for their business, > too. > > Stefan > > >
