QEMU on Windows

QEMU is an emulator for various CPUs. It works on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Windows version is in an alpha stage. I hope I can provide useful information on development and usage of the software.

What's New!

• February 13, 2012: updated for Qemu-1.0 : contains qemu-system-arm.exe, qemu-system-i386.exe, qemu-system-ppc.exe, qemu-system-sparc.exe, qemu-system-x86_64.exe and the linux-0.2.img image. libusb is now removed as it is not working correctly.
• February 29, 2012: updated for Qemu-1.0.1 - Still a "to be tested" version. See bug report win32: git rev 59f971d crashes when accessing disk (coroutine issue). In my version a workaround was to compile coroutine-win32.c without optimisation (-O0): contains qemu-system-arm.exe, qemu-system-i386.exe, qemu-system-ppc.exe, qemu-system-sparc.exe, qemu-system-x86_64.exe and the linux-0.2.img image.
• June 19, 2012: updated for Qemu-1.1.0-1 (see Changelog) - I still have the problem with coroutine-win32.c and only i386 version was really tested:
  contains experimental qemu-ga.exe, qemu-system-arm.exe, qemu-system-armw.exe, qemu-system-i386.exe, qemu-system-i386w.exe, qemu-system-ppc.exe, qemu-system-ppcw.exe, qemu-system-sparc.exe, qemu-system-sparcw.exe, qemu-system-x86_64.exe, qemu-system-x86_64w.exe and the linux-0.2.img image + associated bat file.
  The qemu-archw.exe files are windows executables the others are console executables.
• July 19, 2012: updated for Qemu-1.1.1 : this version is not working well but is available for testing.
• August 21, 2012: updated for Qemu-1.2.0-rc0 (see Changelog): to be tested but seems to work better thant the previous version.
• September 24, 2012: updated for Qemu-1.2.0 (see Changelog), still have the problem with coroutine-win32.c.

Latest Windows binaries (includes FMOD support and SDL 1.2.15) :

• -Lite packages means that only the i386 virtual machine is compiled and available.
• -Medium contains also ARM, PPC and usually SPARC virtual machines.

• Qemu-1.2.0-windows.zip (36M) (NEW)
• Qemu-1.2.0-rc0-windows.zip (35.9M)
• Qemu-1.1.1-windows.zip (34.4M)
• Qemu-1.1.0-windows.zip (26.6M)
• Qemu-1.0.1-windows.zip (18.0M)
• Qemu-1.0-windows.zip (17.7M)
• Qemu-0.15.1-windows-Medium.zip (5.97M)

sha1sum :

• Use the .sha1 files from the release directory...
• See here for usage of sha1sum.

Old Windows binaries :

• browse the release directory...

Links :

• QEMU : http://www.qemu.org/
• SDL : http://www.libsdl.org/
• MinGW : http://www.mingw.org/
• Cygwin: : http://www.cygwin.com/
• Qemu on windows :: previous Qemu on windows page, Tips

How to build

Since Qemu-1.0 the build is done with the MinGW compiler (as it doesn't compile anymore with cygwin, even if Cygwin is still used for the shell and other tools: MSYS is not required) The main difference is now that the build is done with MinGW by using the latest version of gcc.
You need the following packages (downloadable with the MinGW installer program) :

GLIB for MinGW :
Fetched GTK+ Bundle for mingw
You need the following package http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.24/gtk+-bundle_2.24.8-20111122_win32.zip

ZLIB for MinGW :
You need the following packages
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Extension/zlib/zlib-1.2.5-4/libz-1.2.5-4-mingw32-dll-1.tar.lzma/download and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Extension/zlib/zlib-1.2.5-4/libz-1.2.5-4-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma/download

Note: everything is installed for me in D:\MinGW.Those tar files can be extracted with the -J option of cygwin's tar if needed as the cygwin's shell is still used by me (and not the MSYS version).

SDL for MinGW :
Fetched SDL-devel-1.2.15-mingw32.tar.gz from SDL site.

DirectX:
Fetched http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwdx/files/latest/download?source=files
and files from http://www.filehat.com/folders.php?fid=134

Qemu:

• Fetch the source code: http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.2.0.tar.bz2 (or here: qemu-1.2.0.tar.bz2)
• Optionally fetch the fmod library: http://www.fmod.org/index.php/release/version/fmodapi375win.zip (or here: fmodapi375win.zip)
• Fetch and install the patches: qemu-1.2.0-patch and qemu.ico.
  This patch is based on the original patches found here: http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/download/qemu-0.9.0-patches.zip plus my additional work (.ico file + modified version.rc).
• Prepare the Cygwin/MinGW environment:
  Created some links in $HOME/bin directory to ease the calls to the MinGW tools:

  export PATH=/cygdrive/d/MinGW/bin:/home/lassauge/MyDocuments/Qemu/libusb-win32-device-bin-0.1.12.2/bin:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
  cd $HOME/bin
  ln -s /cygdrive/d/MinGW/bin/dlltool.exe i586-mingw32-dlltool
  ln -s /cygdrive/d/MinGW/bin/ld.exe i586-mingw32-ld
  ln -s /cygdrive/d/MinGW/bin/windres.exe i586-mingw32-windres
  

• Created a gcc wrapper to trap some of the POSIX file names to Windows file name: rename it to i586-mingw32-gcc
  Fetch the source code: gcc-wrapper.sh

  #!/bin/bash
  # ##############################################################################
  # (c) Eric Lassauge - January 2012
  # <lassauge {AT} users {DOT} sourceforge {DOT} net >
  #
  # ##############################################################################
  #    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  #    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  #    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  #    (at your option) any later version.
  #
  #    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  #    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  #    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  #    GNU General Public License for more details.
  #
  #    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  #    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
  # ##############################################################################
  # Complete script for MinGW gcc wrapper from cygwin: change POSIX path to windows path
  # Needs: cygpath
  
  #Configure to where you installed MinGW
  mingwbase=/cygdrive/d/MinGW
  mingwroot=`cygpath -w ${mingwbase}`
  
  dollarstar=""
  # Parse the gcc flags to change all file pathes
  while [ $# -ne 0 ]; do
  	case "$1" in
  	-o) 
  		param=`cygpath -w $2`
  		dollarstar="${dollarstar} -o ${param}"
  		shift
  		;;
  	-I)
  		param=`cygpath -w $2`
  		dollarstar="${dollarstar} -I ${param}"
  		shift
  		;;
  	-I*)
  		parami=`echo $1 | sed -e 's/-I//'`
  		first=`echo ${parami} | sed -e 's/^\(.\).*/\1/'`
  		case $first in
  		'/' | '.')
  			param=`cygpath -w ${parami}`
  			dollarstar="${dollarstar} -I${param}"
  			;;
  		*)
  			dollarstar="${dollarstar} ${1}"
  			;;
  		esac
  		;;
  	-B)
  		param=`cygpath -w $2`
  		dollarstar="${dollarstar} -B ${param}"
  		shift
  		;;
  	-L)
  		param=`cygpath -w $2`
  		dollarstar="${dollarstar} -L ${param}"
  		shift
  		;;
  	-L*) 
  		paraml=`echo $1 | sed -e 's/-L//'`
  		first=`echo ${paraml} | sed -e 's/^\(.\).*/\1/'`
  		case $first in
  		'/' | '.')
  			param=`cygpath -w ${paraml}`
  			dollarstar="${dollarstar} -L${param}"
  			;;
  		*)
  			dollarstar="${dollarstar} ${1}"
  			;;
  		esac
  		;;
  	*)
  		if [ -f "$1" ]
  		then
  			param=`cygpath -w $1`
  			dollarstar="${dollarstar} ${param}"
  		else
  			dollarstar="${dollarstar} $1"
  		fi
  		;;
  	esac
  	shift
  done
  
  # remove spurious ^M
  dollarstar=`echo "${dollarstar}" | sed -e 's/^M//g'`
  # echo "# Calling MinGW compiler: gcc ${dollarstar}"
  # Add the path to mingw tools
  export PATH=${mingwbase}/bin:$PATH
  ${mingwbase}/bin/gcc -Wl,-mi386pe --sysroot="${mingwroot}" ${dollarstar}
  

• Configure:
  

  ./configure --target-list="i386-softmmu arm-softmmu sparc-softmmu ppc-softmmu x86_64-softmmu"\
   --cc=i586-mingw32-gcc --host-cc=/usr/bin/gcc --audio-drv-list="dsound sdl fmod"\
   --audio-card-list="ac97 es1370 sb16 cs4231a adlib gus"\
   --prefix=/home/lassauge/MyDocuments/Qemu-windows \
   --fmod-lib=/home/lassauge/Qemu/fmodapi375win/api/lib/libfmod.a \
   --fmod-inc=/home/lassauge/Qemu/fmodapi375win/api/inc \
   --enable-pie --disable-vnc-jpeg --disable-strip --with-confsuffix=/Bios
  

• Verify the generated Makefile for calling windres from MinGW:

  125c125
  <       $(call quiet-command,$(WINDRES) -I. -o $@ $<,"  RC    $(TARGET_DIR)$@")
  ---
  >      $(call quiet-command,$(WINDRES) -I. -o $@ '$(shell cygpath -w $<)',"  RC    $(TARGET_DIR)$@")
  

• Verify the generated config-host.mak and config-target.mak because some spurious ^M could be in!
• Install:
  do not forget to add:

  SDL.dll, 
  fmod.dll, 
  intl.dll, 
  libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll, 
  libglib-2.0-0.dll, 
  libgthread-2.0-0.dll, 
  libpng14-14.dll, 
  libssp-0.dll, 
  zlib1.dll
  

This program is provided as is and without any warranty.