Re: [Qemu-devel] capstone broke mingw cross build

[Alistair Francis]

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>> > "x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar --version" says "GNU ar (GNU Binutils) 2.25"
>>
>> Hmm, I guess this 'ar' isn't capable of avoiding the requirement for
>> ranlib. The capstone makefiles look like they have support for
>> running ranlib, though...
>
> Ah, the recursive call in the qemu Makefile doesn't set RANLIB.
> So it probably works if that happens to be set correctly in the
> environment.  I'm using 'configure --cross-prefix=x86_64-w64-mingw32-'
> for cross builds though.

I'm seeing the same problem on RHEL7.2 as well. Did you find a nicer
solution then manually running runlib?

Thanks,
Alistair

>
> cheers,
>   Gerd
>
>