Windows and QEMU

Fri May 29 17:09:41 UTC 2015

Thanks Gedare. 

I tried building qemu and it failed trying to create cyggettextlib-0-18-3.dll:
.libs/execute.o:execute.c:(.rdata$.refptr.environ[.refptr.environ]+0x0): undefined reference to `environ'

So I have an error:
Makefile:2507: recipe for target 'libgettextlib.la' failed

I'm not that familiar with the low-level components of the build chain and tools, so fixing this is probably well beyond my capability. In the meantime, I tried to download an older QEMU (listed as 1.2.90), but gdb can't connect to it at all. 

-----Original Message-----
From: gedare at gwmail.gwu.edu [mailto:gedare at gwmail.gwu.edu] On Behalf Of Gedare Bloom
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 08:23
To: Wu, Mark H.
Cc: Joel Sherrill; Chris Johns; users at rtems.org
Subject: Re: Windows and QEMU

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Wu, Mark H. <Mark.H.Wu at disney.com> wrote:
> I downloaded QEMU from <http://qemu.weilnetz.de/>. It was the lasted version (2.3.0). What version is compatible with 4.11? Do I need to build it myself for RTEMS compatibility? Almost all of the links in <https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/TBR/UserManual/MinGW_Tools_for_Windows> send you to a "Page Not Found" error... and I can't locate the corresponding files in the git repository.
>
We relocated some services and the FTP links are broken. I fixed
those, they should be ftp.rtems.org/pub instead of
www.rtems.org/ftp/pub.

RSB has support for building Qemu that may be informative [1, 2]. It
checks out a specific commit from the qemu git. I know this isn't a
terribly user-friendly answer, but it might be enough to get started.

RTEMS current support for building and running tools on Windows is not
great. 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.

[1] https://git.rtems.org/rtems-source-builder/tree/bare/config/devel/qemu.bset
[2] https://git.rtems.org/rtems-source-builder/tree/bare/config/devel/qemu-git-1.cfg

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Sherrill [mailto:joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 16:07
> To: Chris Johns; Wu, Mark H.; users at rtems.org
> Subject: Re: Windows and QEMU
>
>
>
> On 5/28/2015 5:44 PM, Chris Johns wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 29/05/2015 3:54 am, Wu, Mark H. wrote:
>>> I've finally got some code ported to RTEMS, and have tried executing it, but get nothing but a dreaded Executive Shutdown. Now I'm trying to set up QEMU so I can debug it (no remote debugging yet!), and am having trouble following the instructions on the website <https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Simulators/QEMU>. I have QEMU downloaded and running (I get the same shutdown), so I've got a good start. I've launched the gdbserver oh QEMU, but I can't connect to it from gdb (through the Cygwin environment). I get the error:
>>>
>>
>> Which QEMU executable did you download ?
>>
>> Are the cygwin tools the latest built by the RSB ?
>>
>>> warning: unrecognized item "timeout" in "qSupported" response
>>>
>>> from gdb.
>
> This looks like a gdb protocol mismatch. Chris question on where
> qemu came from and which version is important here.
>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> I'll even take any other ideas for debugging this system. I suspect it's faulting in one of the constructors, but a liberal dose of printk's isn't helping. It seems like the console-printing code is working (I do get the shutdown messages), but I am not getting any of my own printk's whatsoever.
>>>
>>
>> It looks like the versions of tools are not compatible.
>>
>
> Is the console coming to a serial port or the video?
>
> If you based the qemu invocation on one of my scripts, it disables
> the video from qemu so you might not see output if things are going
> there.
>
>> Chris
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