On 1/11/2025 4:08 PM, Stefan Weil via wrote:
Am 10.01.25 um 21:33 schrieb Pierrick Bouvier:
For now, it was only possible to build plugins using GCC on Windows. However,
windows-aarch64 only supports Clang.
This biggest roadblock was to get rid of gcc_struct attribute, which is not supported by Clang. After investigation, we proved it was safe to drop it.

Built and tested on Windows (all msys env)/Linux/MacOS for x86_64 and aarch64
hosts.

v1 contained warning fixes and various bits that have been upstreamed already. The only bits left in this series are the gcc_struct removal, and fixing the
plugins build with clang.

This series is for 10.0, as we decided to not include the gcc_struct removal is
9.2 release.

All patches are now reviewed, so this series can be pulled. I'll report that to
MSYS2 too, so we can enable clang environments for QEMU.

v1: https://patchew.org/QEMU/20241031040426.772604-1-pierrick.bouv...@linaro.org/

v2:
- drop attribute gcc_struct instead of using -mno-ms-bitfields option
- add a section about bitfields in documentation

v3:
- explain why gcc_struct attribute matters in packed structs in commit message
- reword the bitfields documentation with suggestions given

v4:
- edit for bitfields doc requested by Philippe

Pierrick Bouvier (3):
   win32: remove usage of attribute gcc_struct
   docs/devel/style: add a section about bitfield, and disallow them for
     packed structures
   plugins: enable linking with clang/lld

  docs/devel/style.rst                      | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
  meson.build                               |  6 +++---
  include/qemu/compiler.h                   |  7 +------
  scripts/cocci-macro-file.h                |  6 +-----
  subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.h |  6 +-----
  contrib/plugins/meson.build               |  2 +-
  plugins/meson.build                       | 24 +++++++++++++++++++----
  tests/tcg/plugins/meson.build             |  3 +--
  8 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

This nice series allows building QEMU for Windows with the LLVM cross compiler on my ARM64 machine, so you can add

Is this toolchain available publicly or did you build it yourself?  It would be handy if there were a linux x86_64 hosted cross-toolchain that can target Windows-aarch64.  Or linux aarch64 hosted would be pretty good, too.

Is there an MSYS2 or other distributor that provides windows-aarch64 builds of the glib and other library dependencies?


Tested-by: Stefan Weil <s...@weilnetz.de>

I only needed a trivial additional fix in scripts/nsis.py for `make installer` because the usual GNU objdump and the LLVM objdump (or the cross x86_64-w64-mingw32-objdump in my test) produce slightly different output (indentation with \t, indentation with four spaces). I'll prepare a patch which eliminates the need for objdump, so no intermediate fix is needed for this.

Stefan W.


Reply via email to