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?

• Jun 23, 2016: created Qemu-2.6.0 (see Changelog).
  
  • Now compiled for running on x86_64
  • Switched back to pure cygwin compilation with mingw64-x86_64 tool chain
• Feb 16, 2016: created Qemu-2.5.0 (see Changelog).
• Dec 8, 2015: created Qemu-2.4.1 (see Changelog).
  Updated links/comments for GTK+/DirectX/PIXMAN and configure options.

Latest Windows binaries (x86_64 only): 

• Qemu-2.6.0-windows.7z (54.7M)

Former Windows binaries (x86 only, SDL not included anymore): 

• Qemu-2.5.0-windows.7z (51.1M)
• Qemu-2.4.1-windows.7z (50.5M)

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/
• Cygwin: : http://www.cygwin.com/
• Qemu on windows :: previous Qemu on windows page, Tips

How to build

Since Qemu-2.6.0 the build is done with cygwin using the mingw64-x86_64 tool chain
You need the following packages (downloadable with the cygwin installer program) :
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Qemu: 

• Fetch the source code:  http://wiki.qemu-project.org/download/qemu-2.6.0.tar.bz2 (or here: qemu-2.6.0.tar.bz2)
• Fetch and install the patches:  qemu-2.6.0.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 + various changes in Makefiles + modified version.rc + fr_FR.po update + GTK Alt-Gr).
• Configure:
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  export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig
  ./configure --target-list="i386-softmmu arm-softmmu sparc-softmmu ppc-softmmu x86_64-softmmu mipsel-softmmu" \
   --cc=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc --cxx=x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ --host-cc=/usr/bin/gcc --audio-drv-list="dsound"\
   --cross-prefix=x86_64-w64-mingw32- \
   --prefix=/home/lassauge/MyDocuments/Qemu-windows \
   --with-confsuffix=/Bios \
   --docdir=/home/lassauge/MyDocuments/Qemu-windows/Doc \
   --disable-sdl \
   --enable-gtk --with-gtkabi=3.0 \
   --disable-libusb \
   --enable-guest-agent \
   --disable-werror \
   --disable-strip $*
  

• Compile: 
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  make

• Install: 
  do not forget to add the x86_64 DLL (copy from /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin):
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  iconv.dll
  libatk-1.0-0.dll
  libbz2-1.dll
  libcairo-2.dll
  libcairo-gobject-2.dll
  libepoxy-0.dll
  libexpat-1.dll
  libffi-6.dll
  libfontconfig-1.dll
  libfreetype-6.dll
  libgcc_s_seh-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
  libgmp-10.dll
  libgnutls-28.dll
  libgobject-2.0-0.dll
  libgtk-3-0.dll
  libharfbuzz-0.dll
  libhogweed-2.dll
  libintl-8.dll
  libjpeg-8.dll
  liblzo2-2.dll
  libncursesw6.dll
  libnettle-4.dll
  libp11-kit-0.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
  libpng16-16.dll
  libssh2-1.dll
  libssp-0.dll
  libstdc++-6.dll
  libtasn1-6.dll
  libusbredirparser-1.dll
  zlib1.dll
  

This program is provided as is and without any warranty.