Hi Thomas On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:31 PM Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 19/01/2023 09.56, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > > Hi > > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 12:31 PM Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> in some spare minutes, I started playing with a patch to try to remove the > >> dtc submodule from the QEMU git repository - according to > >> https://repology.org/project/dtc/versions our supported build platforms > >> should now all provide the minimum required version. > >> > >> However, I'm hitting a problem with Windows / MSYS2 in the CI jobs: The > >> libfdt is packaged as part of the dtc package there: > >> > >> https://packages.msys2.org/package/dtc > >> > >> ... meaning that it is added with a usr/include and usr/lib path prefix > >> instead of mingw64/include and mingw64/lib like other packages are using > >> (see e.g. > >> https://packages.msys2.org/package/mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib?repo=mingw64). > >> Thus > >> the compiler does not find the library there. Also there does not seem to > >> be > >> a difference between a i686 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) variant available > >> here? Does anybody know how libfdt is supposed to be used with MSYS2 ? > > > > The msys environment is a bit special, it's not an environment for a > > particular build target, my understanding is that it holds common > > files/tools. > > > > dtc should be added to https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages for it > > to be available as a target dependency. > > Do you have already any experience in requesting a new package there? Could > you maybe do it? ... since I don't have a proper MinGW installation here, it > would be very cumbersome for me right now. >
Here you go (although let see what CI has to say): https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/pull/15168 The msys2 maintainers are usually very quick and helpful, in my experience. (I sometime use a windev evaluation VM, that I import with the help of https://github.com/elmarco/virt-install-windev) -- Marc-André Lureau