Re: [Qemu-devel] How to compile the source code to get the images and executable to run the QEMU?

[Arturo CV]

Hello Daniel,

I really thank you for the answer to my question.. I was following the
steps that are shown in the link that you point out, but when I get
into the step:

- Install the MinGW version of zlib and make sure zlib.h and
libz.dll.a are in MinGW's default header and linker search paths.

I don't know where to get the "zlib", when I try to get it from the
website where I got the MinGW it only shows a *.xml file, and can't
find the way to install those libraries to paste them into the default
header and linker search paths.

If am missing something or didn't understand something regarding this
compilation steps let me know.

Thanks again for your time and help,

Regards,

Arturo Corrales V.

> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <address@hidden>
> Date: May 25, 2012 1:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to compile the source code to get the images
> and executable to run the QEMU?
> To: "Arturo CV" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:08:30PM -0600, Arturo CV wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Am new around here and am working with the QEMU in a project.
>>
>> I would like to ask if there is anyone that can let me know how to
>> compile or build the images to be used to run the QEMU from the source
>> code. I already got the source code from the wiki.qemu.org and I have
>> the version 1.0.1. Now I would like to build it from there to start
>> doing some test with my project.
>>
>> At the beginning I was working with the version 0.14.50 but it was
>> already build with all the executable and everything and am having
>> issues when I try to put the system into an Idle state using the
>> "wait" so I was looking to use the newest version and go from there.
>>
>> I appreciate all the help and guidance you can give me since am kind
>> of newbie with this :)
>
> Ordinarily I'd suggest that for any open source project you can just
> read the "INSTALL" file or "README" file for instructions, but having
> just checked I see QEMU does not have an INSTALL file and the README
> is mostly useless. Sigh.
>
> About the only docs I can find on building QEMU are these:
>
>  http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html#compilation
>
> If you only want to build one particular architecture (eg x86_64),
> then my recommendation is:
>
>  ./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --prefix=$HOME/usr/qemu-1.0.1
>  make
>  make install
>
> Then you can run it
>
>   $HOME/usr/qemu-1.0.1/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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