[Qemu-devel] Call for build instructions for FreeBSD and MacOSX

[Qemu-devel] Call for build instructions for FreeBSD and MacOSX

[Alex Bennée]

Hi,

I was looking at fixing a FreeBSD compile failure yesterday and I spent
a lot of time trying to figure out building on a system that I'm not
very familiar with. Today I'm having a quick look at extending the
Travis build to MacOSX.

In both cases I'm not getting very far and I notice we only really have
decent build instructions on the wiki for Linux and Win32:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
  http://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32

Could I implore the greater community to think about putting up some
simple instructions for people that are not familiar with these systems.
It will help *you* in the long run ;-)

FWIW on FreeBSD I ended up:
  * running make on the /usr/ports qemu to bring in dependencies
  * ./configure --disable-nettle (the script seems to miss this)
  * use gmake

I'm not sure if this is the right way but I did manage to reproduce the
failure that had been reported.

On MacOSX I could really do with knowing:
  * What Xcode/compiler should work
  * How are dependencies installed? (brew?)
  * Any special configure options needed?

Thanks in advance,

--
Alex Bennée

Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for build instructions for FreeBSD and MacOSX

[Peter Maydell]

On 22 March 2016 at 09:18, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was looking at fixing a FreeBSD compile failure yesterday and I spent
> a lot of time trying to figure out building on a system that I'm not
> very familiar with. Today I'm having a quick look at extending the
> Travis build to MacOSX.
>
> In both cases I'm not getting very far and I notice we only really have
> decent build instructions on the wiki for Linux and Win32:
>
>   http://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
>   http://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32
>
> Could I implore the greater community to think about putting up some
> simple instructions for people that are not familiar with these systems.
> It will help *you* in the long run ;-)

OSX build instructions are documented in the documentation:
http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html#Mac-OS-X

thanks
-- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for build instructions for FreeBSD and MacOSX

[Alex Bennée]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On 22 March 2016 at 09:18, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was looking at fixing a FreeBSD compile failure yesterday and I spent
>> a lot of time trying to figure out building on a system that I'm not
>> very familiar with. Today I'm having a quick look at extending the
>> Travis build to MacOSX.
>>
>> In both cases I'm not getting very far and I notice we only really have
>> decent build instructions on the wiki for Linux and Win32:
>>
>>   http://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
>>   http://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32
>>
>> Could I implore the greater community to think about putting up some
>> simple instructions for people that are not familiar with these systems.
>> It will help *you* in the long run ;-)
>
> OSX build instructions are documented in the documentation:
> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html#Mac-OS-X

Of course it is ;-)

Is that the canonical location for the rendered documentation?

>
> thanks
> -- PMM


--
Alex Bennée

Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for build instructions for FreeBSD and MacOSX

[Peter Maydell]

On 22 March 2016 at 11:37, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>> OSX build instructions are documented in the documentation:
>> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html#Mac-OS-X
>
> Of course it is ;-)
>
> Is that the canonical location for the rendered documentation?

It's the one the wiki links to, but I wouldn't call it canonical.
Ideally we ought to set up a rendered copy on qemu.org proper...

thanks
-- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for build instructions for FreeBSD and MacOSX

[Liviu Ionescu]

> On 22 Mar 2016, at 11:18, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> ... putting up some
> simple instructions for people that are not familiar with these systems.

the GNU ARM Eclipse QEMU build procedure is documented at

	http://gnuarmeclipse.github.io/qemu/build-procedure/

binaries for win32/win64/debian32/debian64/osx64 are created during a single run on OS X.

the entire build script is available from GitHub:

	https://github.com/gnuarmeclipse/build-scripts/blob/master/scripts/build-qemu.sh


regards,

Liviu