Re: [PATCH 00/13] Make QEMU installation relocatable

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 02/09/2020 13:16, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> On 02/09/20 13:42, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> The main issues I can see are that the .exe files end up under /msys64/qemu
>> and the ROMs end up directly under /qemu rather than in $DESTDIR/share.
> 
> This series doesn't try to change the layout; it only makes it possible
> to do so (because QEMU is now able to look for ROMs relative to the
> executable).
> 
> Just to be on the same page, how did you run "configure"?

Ah okay. It was something simple like:

./configure --target-list="ppc-softmmu" --ninja=ninja
make V=1 DESTDIR=/home/Mark/rel-qemu-git install

A quick test shows that I can move qemu-system-ppc.exe to a new directory and 
as long
as the pc-bios directory is in the same place then it will work fine.

>> Do we know why there is also a qemu-system-ppcw.exe that appears?
> 
> That executable doesn't bring up a console window.

>From what I can see neither executable brings up a console window here. I have 
>a
vague memory that mingw needs an extra flag/change of link options for this to 
work
compared to cygwin but it could use some investigation (for example
qemu-system-ppc.exe just hangs if the pc-bios directory is missing).


ATB,

Mark.