Re: problema compilation

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Cc'ing Stefan / Yonggang / Paolo.

On 2/20/21 12:03 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 22:54, nerus <fhuvu30@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Good evening, I turn to you because I have a problem that does not appear in 
>> the official documentation, nor in the different blogs or irc channels.
>>
>> I need to do a cross compilation but it is impossible from version 5.2, when 
>> I use msys2 an error occurs indicating that symbolic links cannot be created 
>> even though the windows user has permissions to create symbolic links, I 
>> configured this through gpedit.msc.
>>
>> when I use cygwin with the mingw64-w64 tool chain an error occurs whereby 
>> meson says that it cannot find any compiler even though the compiler path is 
>> specified in the configuration script, mingw cannot be used from linux 
>> either due to There are many missing components that cannot be compiled by 
>> hand because the proper versions are no longer available, how could you 
>> solve these problems without using already compiled binaries? Thank you
> 
> Cross compilation works in general -- our CI testing setup
> includes various cross-compile configurations, including
> building Windows executables from a Linux host
> (eg https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/1042844159).
> 
> You'll need to be more specific about exactly what you're
> trying to do and failing (eg quoting exact commands,
> setups, error messages).
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
>