On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 11:21, Liviu Ionescu <i...@livius.net> wrote: > I did not check the implementation details, but if Cocoa is > mandatory when building on macOS, why is it even allowed to > choose SDL during configure?
Because (1) the macOS host support in QEMU is not very well maintained, so the default is "it doesn't change", and (2) the "use SDL" option seems to have worked for at least some people in the past: here's a bug report from 2019 https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1847906 where the reporter said that cocoa didn't work for him but SDL did, for instance. -- PMM