Windows and QEMU

[Wu, Mark H.]

Thanks, Chris. I'll look into MSYS2. Can you fully build RSB and an RTEMS app under MSYS2? (Can I switch to the MSYS2 environment to replace Cygwin?)

I tried building qemu through RSB under Cygwin64, but it failed trying to build one of the libraries (see my earlier note).

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This is changing. I can build tools using the RSB on Windows using MSYS2
(https://msys2.github.io/). I also believe cygwin64 is building the
tools but I have not tried.

A quick check of the MSYS2 packages shows qemu is included:

$ pacman -Ss qemu
mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-qemu 2.1.2-1
    A generic and open source processor emulator (mingw-w64)
mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qemu 2.1.2-1
    A generic and open source processor emulator (mingw-w64)

I just installed mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qemu and it contains a i686,
X86_64 and arm versions of qemu. I have not tried them.

> You might get further using a VM than you do using MinGW, but
> others may have advice on MinGW. Usually some time after a release
> happens, those tools tend to become more stable. I believe we intend
> for Windows support to improve in the future especially as we get away
> from certain GNU tools in the RTEMS build dependencies.

MSYS2 is worth a look now.

Chris