From 21e709aa071d301f154f137bffaaa19fe11e88bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lureau?= Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:04:13 +0400 Subject: build-sys: do no support modules on Windows MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Our module system does not support Windows, because it relies on resolving symbols from the main executable. If there is enough interest in supporting modules on Windows, we could generate an import library for the executable and link with it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15454968/dll-plugin-that-uses-functions-defined-in-the-main-executable However, there is a small chicken egg problem, since the executable link and exports extra symbols needed by the library... Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau Message-Id: <20190718120413.27678-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- configure | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'configure') diff --git a/configure b/configure index 99c64be6b7..7be0e68222 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -1752,7 +1752,7 @@ disabled with --disable-FEATURE, default is enabled if available: guest-agent build the QEMU Guest Agent guest-agent-msi build guest agent Windows MSI installation package pie Position Independent Executables - modules modules support + modules modules support (non-Windows) debug-tcg TCG debugging (default is disabled) debug-info debugging information sparse sparse checker @@ -2007,6 +2007,11 @@ else QEMU_CFLAGS="$QEMU_CFLAGS -Wno-missing-braces" fi +# Our module code doesn't support Windows +if test "$modules" = "yes" && test "$mingw32" = "yes" ; then + error_exit "Modules are not available for Windows" +fi + # Static linking is not possible with modules or PIE if test "$static" = "yes" ; then if test "$modules" = "yes" ; then -- cgit v1.2.3