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From: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Problems with native Mingw-w64 build
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To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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On 28/03/17 16:16, Thomas Huth wrote:

> On 28.03.2017 09:25, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> [...]
>> I ended up starting again from scratch last night and trying the build
>> with MSYS2 instead. MSYS2 has really improved since I last looked at it
>> a couple of years back, and I was able to get a working build
>> environment all set and working without any issues, i.e. set up the
>> build environment, run configure, make and make install.
>>
>> I did make a few notes during installation so if people think it's
>> useful I can work through them again and come up with something suitable
>> for the wiki.
> 
> We've already got a page with instructions for building with MingW:
> 
>  http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
> 
> So that might be a good place to add your experience with MSYS, I guess?

Done. See
http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32#Native_builds_with_MSYS2 for
details of how to build on W64 with MSYS2.


ATB,

Mark.