Re: Error while configuring Qemu

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 16:06, Rajan Singh <rbsingh1983@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
> Thanks for the information.It helped me.
> Now I am getting an error regarding meson.Could help to fix this .
> Here is the screenshot of the error-

Please quote error messages by cutting and pasting their text,
not by taking screen shots.

The error message from the build seems clear enough to me:
it could not find the pixman-1 dependency, so you need to
install it. The wiki provides some information on installing
dependencies on Linux hosts:
https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Linux#Building_QEMU_for_Linux

I see also that you appear to be using Ubuntu 16.04.
This is a version that is older than any Ubuntu which
QEMU currently supports. QEMU may still build OK, or on
the other hand you may find that configure complains that
it requires a newer version of some dependency than is
available in the Ubuntu 16.04 packages. (You can in theory
build such missing dependencies locally yourself but it's
probably easier to just upgrade to a newer Ubuntu.)

(QEMU's distro support policy is documented here:
https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/build-platforms.html
For distros like Ubuntu with a 'long-lifetime' type release
(like LTS), we support the most recent major version, and
the previous major version up until 2 years after the next
major version was released. So we support 20.04 LTS (the
most recent) and also will support 18.04 LTS until at least
April 2022 (since 20.04 was released in April 2020), but
anything older than that is not officially supported and
may or may not work.)

thanks
-- PMM