[Bug 1845185] Re: Cannot build qemu utils (qemu-img.exe, qemu-edid.exe, qemu-io.exe) statically with MSYS2 on Windows because intl and iconv libs are not loaded

[Adrian Vladu <avladu@cloudbasesolutions.com>]

** Tags added: mingw32 msys windows

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Title:
  Cannot build qemu utils (qemu-img.exe, qemu-edid.exe, qemu-io.exe)
  statically with MSYS2 on Windows because intl and iconv libs are not
  loaded

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  Using MSYS2 and mingw32 instructions from
  https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32#Native_builds_with_MSYS2, I could not
  statically build the qemu-utils using the latest qemu master branch.

  Steps to reproduce the issue:
  1. Install MSYS2 on a Windows 10 x64 box
  2. Install required mingw64 toolchain: pacman -S base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain git python mingw-w64-x86_64-glib2 mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3 mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2
  3. clone qemu
  4. Run configure for static build for the tools only
    ./configure --disable-user --disable-system --disable-docs --enable-tools  --disable-guest-agent --disable-capstone --disable-sheepdog --enable-debug --static
    # I had to remove sheepdog, capstone and guest agent because other errors popped out, but let's not go in the rabbit hole.
  5. Run 'make -j'. the following errors appeared, signaling that intl lib is not loaded. If I add intl lib, iconv lib needs to be loaded too.

  make: *** [/home/ader1990/qemu/rules.mak:124: qemu-img.exe] Error 1
  make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  C:/msys64l/mingw64/lib\libglib-2.0.a(giowin32.c.obj):(.text+0x1522): undefined reference to `libintl_sprintf'
  C:/msys64l/mingw64/lib\libglib-2.0.a(giowin32.c.obj):(.text+0x154f): undefined reference to `libintl_sprintf'
  C:/msys64l/mingw64/lib\libglib-2.0.a(giowin32.c.obj):(.text+0x157e): undefined reference to `libintl_sprintf'
  C:/msys64l/mingw64/lib\libglib-2.0.a(giowin32.c.obj):(.text+0x15ad): undefined reference to `libintl_sprintf'
  C:/msys64l/mingw64/lib\libglib-2.0.a(giowin32.c.obj):(.text+0x15dc): undefined reference to `libintl_sprintf'
  C:/msys64l/mingw64/lib\libglib-2.0.a(giowin32.c.obj):(.text+0x1622): more undefined references to `libintl_sprintf' follow
  C:/msys64l/mingw64/lib\libglib-2.0.a(ggettext.c.obj):(.text+0x43): undefined reference to `libintl_textdomain'
  C:/msys64l/mingw64/lib\libglib-2.0.a(ggettext.c.obj):(.text+0x52): undefined reference to `libintl_gettext'
  C:/msys64l/mingw64/lib\libglib-2.0.a(ggettext.c.obj):(.text+0x203): undefined reference to `libintl_bindtextdomain'
  C:/msys64l/mingw64/lib\libglib-2.0.a(ggettext.c.obj):(.text+0x21e): undefined reference to `libintl_bind_textdomain_codeset'
  C:/msys64l/mingw64/lib\libglib-2.0.a(ggettext.c.obj):(.text+0x2c1): undefined reference to `libintl_dgettext'
  C:/msys64l/mingw64/lib\libglib-2.0.a(ggettext.c.obj):(.text+0x4e1): undefined reference to `libintl_dcgettext'
  C:/msys64l/mingw64/lib\libglib-2.0.a(ggettext.c.obj):(.text+0x53a): undefined reference to `libintl_dngettext'

  Patch to fix the issue (added intl and iconv to the libs):

  diff --git a/configure b/configure
  index 30aad233d1..e2ab8ef026 100755
  --- a/configure
  +++ b/configure
  @@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ if test "$mingw32" = "yes" ; then
     DSOSUF=".dll"
     # MinGW needs -mthreads for TLS and macro _MT.
     QEMU_CFLAGS="-mthreads $QEMU_CFLAGS"
  -  LIBS="-lwinmm -lws2_32 -liphlpapi $LIBS"
  +  LIBS="-lwinmm -lws2_32 -liphlpapi -lintl -liconv $LIBS"
     write_c_skeleton;
     if compile_prog "" "-liberty" ; then
       LIBS="-liberty $LIBS"

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