Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image

2005-06-28 Thread Jim C. Brown
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:52:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "John R. Hogerhuis" > > > > > I can't say. But even if it were, I'd guess most here would rather work > > under Unix-like OS. > > Undoubtably. > > The Linux builders outnumber the Win builders by probably 50 to one. If not >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image

2005-06-24 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 22:30 +0100, Tim Walker wrote: > Thanks for the replies. > > I thought the Live CD was a bad idea until I realised it can still be > booted under QEMU for non x86 users (Live CDs can be created for other > platforms - have to pick one otherwise it'd be a nightmare). The >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image

2005-06-24 Thread Tim Walker
Thanks for the replies. I thought the Live CD was a bad idea until I realised it can still be booted under QEMU for non x86 users (Live CDs can be created for other platforms - have to pick one otherwise it'd be a nightmare). The tradeoff would be speed for x86 users vs ease of image maintenan

Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image

2005-06-24 Thread jeebs
"John R. Hogerhuis" > > I can't say. But even if it were, I'd guess most here would rather work > under Unix-like OS. Undoubtably. The Linux builders outnumber the Win builders by probably 50 to one. If not more. But I know from the effort I went through to get qemu to build under windows th

Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image

2005-06-24 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 14:13 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "John R. Hogerhuis" > > > BTW, one problem with WIndows is that QEMU developers do not have access > > to Windows licenses. Might be nice for non-programmers who want to > > contribute to donate old licensed copies of Windows for testin

Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image

2005-06-24 Thread jeebs
"John R. Hogerhuis" > BTW, one problem with WIndows is that QEMU developers do not have access > to Windows licenses. Might be nice for non-programmers who want to > contribute to donate old licensed copies of Windows for testing work. Does the ReactOS build work well enough to do Mingw etc. deve

Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image

2005-06-24 Thread jeebs
"Christian MICHON" >untrue. >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/trial/default.mspx > >that would give 6 months to complete development... I think they did one of them for a year. However, I doubt they'd appreciate you distributing anything of theirs... Can ReactOS be used to

Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image

2005-06-24 Thread Christian MICHON
> BTW, one problem with WIndows is that QEMU developers do not have access > to Windows licenses. Might be nice for non-programmers who want to > contribute to donate old licensed copies of Windows for testing work. > untrue. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/trial/default.msp

Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image

2005-06-24 Thread Christian MICHON
> For whatever reason I was thinking more along the lines of testing > historical Windows OSes under QEMU, but good suggestion. but keep in mind the following. You can install the eval 2003 sp1 on only one machine. So make it a qemu one :) Christian _

Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image

2005-06-24 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 20:24 +0200, Christian MICHON wrote: > > BTW, one problem with WIndows is that QEMU developers do not have access > > to Windows licenses. Might be nice for non-programmers who want to > > contribute to donate old licensed copies of Windows for testing work. > > > > untrue.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image

2005-06-24 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 18:19 +0100, Tim Walker wrote: > Is this a bad idea for some reason, or is it just unnecessary? Some > feedback would be appreciated. > It's a cool idea, I think. I went through the mingw thing a while back and it's a PITA. It would be nice to have known working build plat

Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image

2005-06-24 Thread Christian MICHON
you would probably need to setup cross compilers at least, find a global linux config file generic enough (ex: no framebuffer), and at least a initrd with minimum bins (static busybox would be best). This also implies you've a lot of time free :) if you want to do it for many architectures/targets

Re: [Qemu-devel] Build environment image

2005-06-24 Thread Tim Walker
Is this a bad idea for some reason, or is it just unnecessary? Some feedback would be appreciated. Cheers, Tim Tim Walker wrote: How difficult would it be to create a (presumably Linux) uniform build environment for all targets as a bootable Qemu image? ___

[Qemu-devel] Build environment image

2005-06-21 Thread Tim Walker
How difficult would it be to create a (presumably Linux) uniform build environment for all targets as a bootable Qemu image? ___ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel