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?

• Dec 8, 2015: created Qemu-2.4.1 (see Changelog).
  Updated links/comments for GTK+/DirectX/PIXMAN and configure options.
• Oct 8, 2015: created Qemu-2.4.0.1 (see Changelog).
  Note that the file to download is now 7-Zip compressed because it's really smaller (Usually, 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format)! Download 7-Zip for uncompressing it.
• Sept 14, 2015: created Qemu-2.4.0 (see Changelog).
  Specific status is: 
  • fmod support removed in upstream package;
  • Added patch for locale management (Win32 only). Still some problems with some accentuated characters to be analysed;
  • Added patch (from mailing list) for AltGr;
  • x86_64 not tested.
• Sept 09, 2015: created Qemu-2.3.0 (see Changelog).
• March 20, 2015: created Qemu-2.2.1 (see Changelog). General status is: 
  • contains System-i386, System-arm, System-mipsel, System-ppc, System-sparc, System-x86_64, Guest Agent;
  • compiled with GTK+-3.0;
  • mipsel not ok and x86_64 tested with Fedora 21 Live CD;
  • see included bat files and disk images for testing (these images coming from http://wiki.qemu.org/Testing) + Doc/test-status.txt.

Latest Windows binaries (SDL not included anymore): 

• Qemu-2.4.1-windows.7z (50.5M)

Latest Windows binaries (includes SDL 1.2.15, FMOD not included anymore): 

• Qemu-2.4.0.1-windows.7z (51.8M)
• Qemu-2.4.0-windows.zip (139.0M)

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

• Qemu-2.3.0-windows.zip (134.0M)
• Qemu-2.2.1-windows.zip (133.0M)
• Qemu-2.2.0-windows.zip (106.0M)

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, Cygwin is still used for the shell and other tools (MSYS is not required)
The main difference is now that the build is done since Qemu-1.2.1 with MinGW by using the latest version of gcc.
Note that with latest version of cygwin, gcc4-core gcc4-core-4.7.3 and gcc4-g++-4.7.3 are available, maybe this can be compiled again with 'pure' Cygwin
You need the following packages (downloadable with the MinGW installer program) :
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GLIB/GTK+ 3.0 for MinGW: 
Fetched latest working GTK+ Bundle 3.6.4 for mingw.
You need the following package http://win32builder.gnome.org/gtk+-bundle_3.6.4-20130921_win32.zip
Warning: do not forget to correct the values of prefix= in the provided lib/pkgconfig/*.pc files!
See gtk+-bundle_win32.README

ZLIB for MinGW: 
You need the following packages
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Extension/zlib/zlib-1.2.7-1/libz-1.2.7-1-mingw32-dll-1.tar.lzma/download and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Extension/zlib/zlib-1.2.7-1/libz-1.2.7-1-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma/download

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

DirectX for MinGW: :
Fetched include files from https://github.com/lifthrasiir/w32api-directx-standalone.

PIXMAN for MinGW: 
Fetch my version of the pixman library for MinGW pixman-0.32.8-mingw32.tar.bz2.
Source code is here: http://cairographics.org/releases/ (or here: pixman-0.32.8.tar.gz)
Note: my porting notes are here: pixman-0.32.8-mingw32-README.txt.

libfdt for MinGW :
Optionally fetch my version of the libfdt library for MinGW libfdt-1.3.0-EL-1-mingw32.tar.bz2.
Source code is here: http://jdl.com/software/dtc-v1.3.0.tgz (or here: dtc-v1.3.0.tgz)
Note: my porting notes are here: libfdt-1.3.0-EL-1-mingw32-README.txt.

Qemu: 

• Fetch the source code:  http://wiki.qemu-project.org/download/qemu-2.4.1.tar.bz2 (or here: qemu-2.4.1.tar.bz2)
• Fetch and install the patches:  qemu-2.4.1.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 + various changes in Makefiles + modified version.rc + fr_FR.po update + GTK Alt-Gr).
• Prepare the Cygwin/MinGW environment: 
  Created some links in $HOME/bin directory to ease the calls to the MinGW tools: 
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  export PATH=/cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
  cd $HOME/bin
  ln -s /cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin/dlltool.exe i586-mingw32-dlltool
  ln -s /cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin/ld.exe i586-mingw32-ld
  ln -s /cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin/windres.exe i586-mingw32-windres
  ln -s /usr/bin/pkg-config.exe i586-mingw32-pkg-config
  ln -s ar-wrapper.h i586-mingw32-ar
  ln -s gcc-wrapper.sh i586-mingw32-gcc

• 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
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  #!/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/c/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}

• Created an ar wrapper (for compiling pixman) to trap some of the POSIX file names to Windows file name: rename it to i586-mingw32-ar
  Fetch the source code:  ar-wrapper.sh
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  #!/bin/bash
  # ##############################################################################
  # (c) Eric Lassauge - December 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 ar wrapper from cygwin: change POSIX path to windows path
  # Needs: cygpath
  
  #Configure to where you installed MinGW
  mingwbase=/cygdrive/c/MinGW
  mingwroot=`cygpath -w ${mingwbase}`
  
  dollarstar=""
  # Parse the gcc flags to change all file pathes
  while [ $# -ne 0 ]; do
  	case "$1" in
  	*)
  		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/
  //g'`
  # echo "# Calling MinGW compiler: gcc ${dollarstar}"
  # Add the path to mingw tools
  export PATH=${mingwbase}/bin:$PATH
  ${mingwbase}/bin/ar ${dollarstar}

• Configure:
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  export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/cygdrive/c/MinGW/lib/pkgconfig
  ./configure --target-list="i386-softmmu arm-softmmu sparc-softmmu ppc-softmmu x86_64-softmmu mipsel-softmmu" \
   --cc=i586-mingw32-gcc --cxx=i586-mingw32-g++ --host-cc=/usr/bin/gcc --audio-drv-list="dsound"\
   --prefix=/home/lassauge/MyDocuments/Qemu-windows \
   --with-confsuffix=/Bios \
   --docdir=/home/lassauge/MyDocuments/Qemu-windows/Doc \
   --enable-guest-agent \
   --enable-gtk --with-gtkabi=3.0 \
   --disable-curses \
   --disable-sdl \
   --disable-libusb \
   --disable-werror \
   --disable-strip $*
  

• Verify the generated config-host.mak and config-target.mak because some spurious ^M might be in! (you can use this script to ease your pain: clean-config.sh).
• Compile: ((I had to get rid of the generation of the dependencies *.d files because of the mess created by the mix of windows and POSIX pathes)
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  make

• Install: 
  do not forget to add the DLL from the MinGW environment (C:\MinGW\lib in my case):
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  gdiplus.dll
  libatk-1.0-0.dll
  libbz2-2.dll
  libcairo-2.dll
  libcairo-gobject-2.dll
  libexpat-1.dll
  libffi-6.dll
  libfontconfig-1.dll
  libfreetype-6.dll
  libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
  libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll
  libgdk-3-0.dll
  libgio-2.0-0.dll
  libglib-2.0-0.dll
  libgmodule-2.0-0.dll
  libgobject-2.0-0.dll
  libgthread-2.0-0.dll
  libgtk-3-0.dll
  libiconv-2.dll
  libintl-8.dll
  libjpeg-9.dll
  liblzma-5.dll
  libpango-1.0-0.dll
  libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll
  libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll
  libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll
  libpixman-1-0.dll
  libpng15-15.dll
  libssp-0.dll
  libstdc++-6.dll
  libxml2-2.dll
  libz-1.dll
  pthreadGC2.dll
  zlib1.dll
  

This program is provided as is and without any warranty.