Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add guest-get-hostname to retrieve the guests current hostname

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:04:33AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 07:31:17PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 01:57:54PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> [..snip..]
> > 
> > Why no impl ?  Winsock has the gethostname() API too
> > 
> > $ grep gethostname /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/*.h
> > /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/winsock2.h:  
> > WINSOCK_API_LINKAGE int WSAAPI gethostname(char *name,int namelen);
> 
> This was mostly due to the lack of a test system. Are there any pointers
> on how to cross compile qemu-qa for Windows?

Assuming you have the Mingw64 toolchain installed, then compilation is just
a case of passing the --cross-prefix arg to configure. eg on Fedora 17 I
would do:

  ./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32-

which causes it to use  i686-w64-mingw32-gcc as the compiler

Daniel
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