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| author | Ulf Hermann <ulf.hermann@qt.io> | 2017-12-08 10:38:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Ulf Hermann <ulf.hermann@qt.io> | 2017-12-21 14:09:04 +0000 |
| commit | 40c8991ec8962c1012ced64bb4e4b01f343fe293 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f5db44ebfcd124e3199ef5b99a89d0c6f2f3976 | |
| parent | e556d22e3f6f59301c5a2616507c1a2357b01798 (diff) | |
Add a windows specific README
Building this on windows is tricky.
Change-Id: I5e30b4438dab37672ca38a8b661f1e6438ebb796
Reviewed-by: Christian Kandeler <christian.kandeler@qt.io>
| -rw-r--r-- | README.windows | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README.windows b/README.windows new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4fb8a3d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.windows @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +In order to build this with mingw/msys for perfparser, use the following configure line: + +LDFLAGS=-static-libgcc configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-selfcontained --enable-gnulib \ + --without-bzlib --without-lzma + +That is: +- static-libgcc so that we don't depend on a shared libgcc +- maintainer-mode as we are building from git +- selfcontained to ship the headers needed to link perfparser +- gnulib to replace missing libc functions +- without-bzlib to avoid extra dependencies +- without-lzma also to avoid dependencies + +Check the resulting files with depends.exe. If they depend on any 3rd party dlls, track those down +and check if the libraries are also available as static versions. If so, move the .dll.a files away +to prevent dynamic linking and build again. This is currently about libz and libdl but might happen +with other libraries if elfutils gets more dependencies (hopefully not). + +In order to run the tests, you have to add the libasm, libelf, libdw and backends directories to +PATH, as windows doesn't have RPATH. + +In order to create the .lib files needed to link the elfutils libraries into MSVC-built binaries, +the "lib.exe" command has to be available from PATH. + |