Hi Bastian, I got past this error by installing libvte-dev instead of libvte-2.91-dev.
I'm not sure if it actually works however. Cheers, Berg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1794939 Title: QEMU does not build with vte v2.91 Status in QEMU: New Bug description: when I build qemu with vte support and vte-2.91 installed I get the following deprecation warning: error: ‘vte_terminal_set_encoding’ is deprecated [-Werror=deprecated-declarations] vte_terminal_set_encoding(VTE_TERMINAL(vc->vte.terminal), "UTF-8", NULL); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/vte-2.91/vte/vte.h:35 I looked for the commit in vte that deprecated the offending function (a17e714d), which led me to the thread: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/issues/3 It looks like from this version forward vte forces us to use utf-8, such that this function call becomes unnecessary in QEMU. Cheers, Bastian To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1794939/+subscriptions