I don't have strong opinion in the end, I'm just looking for building
contrib plugins like the rest of the codebase, to reduce maintenance burden.
Initially, when this idea was implemented, it was suggested by Alex to
remove the Makefile [1].
Now it seems to be suggested to keep it as an exampl
On 15/8/24 20:04, Pierrick Bouvier wrote:
On 8/14/24 23:00, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 1:37 AM Pierrick Bouvier
wrote:
Contrib plugins have been built out of tree so far, thanks to a
Makefile.
However, it is quite inconvenient for maintenance, as we may break them,
especiall
On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 at 19:38, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 8:04 PM Pierrick Bouvier
> wrote:
> > > One argument from moving contrib/plugins to meson is that the Windows
> > > case depends on libqemu_plugin_api.a which is built with meson(*);
> > > that said, libqemu_plugin_api
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 8:04 PM Pierrick Bouvier
wrote:
> > One argument from moving contrib/plugins to meson is that the Windows
> > case depends on libqemu_plugin_api.a which is built with meson(*);
> > that said, libqemu_plugin_api.a should be installed - which would
> > justify it being used f
On 8/14/24 23:00, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 1:37 AM Pierrick Bouvier
wrote:
Contrib plugins have been built out of tree so far, thanks to a Makefile.
However, it is quite inconvenient for maintenance, as we may break them,
especially for specific architectures.
First patches
On 8/15/24 04:42, Alex Bennée wrote:
Paolo Bonzini writes:
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 1:37 AM Pierrick Bouvier
wrote:
Contrib plugins have been built out of tree so far, thanks to a Makefile.
However, it is quite inconvenient for maintenance, as we may break them,
especially for specific archit
Paolo Bonzini writes:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 1:37 AM Pierrick Bouvier
> wrote:
>> Contrib plugins have been built out of tree so far, thanks to a Makefile.
>> However, it is quite inconvenient for maintenance, as we may break them,
>> especially for specific architectures.
>>
>> First patches
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 1:37 AM Pierrick Bouvier
wrote:
> Contrib plugins have been built out of tree so far, thanks to a Makefile.
> However, it is quite inconvenient for maintenance, as we may break them,
> especially for specific architectures.
>
> First patches are fixing warnings for existing
Contrib plugins have been built out of tree so far, thanks to a Makefile.
However, it is quite inconvenient for maintenance, as we may break them,
especially for specific architectures.
First patches are fixing warnings for existing plugins, then we add meson
support, and finally, we remove Makefi
