A makefile for building QEMU using msys2 on Windows.
A work continually in progress.
Motivation: Attempting to debug some complex ARM firmware on not-yet-ready hardware lead back to QEMU and emulation of Cortex M7 devices. Sadly all attempts to do this were thwarted by QEMU's inability to understand valid COM port filenames like \\.\COM19 or the com0com generated \\.\CNCA0. Modifying QEMU code seemed inevitable. With the immediate corrollary being a requirement for simple, fast, and repeatable compilation on Windows hardware.
The core requirements are limited to:
- A working msys2 installation (https://www.msys2.org/)
- Cloning this repository to somewhere suitable i.e.
~/src/qemuw
Run make to see this:
JEvans@I7 MINGW64 ~/src/MakeQemuWin
$ make
make clone: Get source tree into ../qemu
make setup: configure QEMU build. arm and aarch64 in this case
make build: runs make on QEMU source tree (../qemu)
make update: copies binaries to target folder (/r/apps/qemu9)
make msys: ensure pacman updates and installs build requirements
make nuke: delete all build artefacts, including directory and configuration ../buildcd ../qemu9
make install: copies built binaries and runtime DLLs etc. to target folder (/r/apps/qemu9)
Links and references:
Thanks and credit for getting things rolling: https://github.com/RceNinja/notes/blob/master/notes/build_qemu_with_enabled_hyper-v_acceleration_(whpx)_on_windows.md