[Vm-dev] Building BochsIA32Plugin

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Igor,

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi, Eliot
>
> you are the only one, who probably could answer this question
>
> in
> processors/IA32/bochs/conf.COG
>
> i found following:
>
> CPATH="/sw/include"
> LDFLAGS="-L/sw/lib"
>
> this looks like a dependency, which requred by Bochs code simulator to
> build..
> what is it, and why it is needed?
>

Good question.  It appears to be noise.  It is probably needed for the full
pc-emulator build of Bochs, but not the subset that provides x86/x86-64
processor.  I've fixed this and will update soon.

best
Eliot


>
> as i can see, you using only following parts of it:
>  - cpu, fpu and disasm
>
> which actually a libs, and its quite easy to build them without too
> much ad-hoc preparations.
>
> So, i wonder, what if i just include all source files in these dirs as
> a source files for boch's plugin lib,
> and with proper compiler flags and defines, simply compile them into
> single library
> using plain CMakeLists.txt file,
> without scary monstrosities like configure scripts (the only product
> of it, which is really needed is generated config.h header).
>
>
> Of course, i could instruct cmake to run configure script.. or
> conf.COG .. whatever.
> Just wanna be able to build this plugin without requiring user's attention.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
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