Re: [PATCH 0/7] build: replace ninjatool with ninja

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 15/10/2020 18:39, Volker Rümelin wrote:

> > Thanks Paolo,
> >
> > Then only the issue regarding the pcbios/optionrom stuff remains ;-)
> >
> > make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'multiboot.bin', needed by 'all'.  Stop.
> > make: *** [Makefile:171: pc-bios/optionrom/all] Error 2
> > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> >
> > Best,
> > Howard
>
> Hi Howard,
>
> one solution for this issue is to uncomment the following line in 
> msys2_shell.cmd.
>
> rem To activate windows native symlinks uncomment next line
> set MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict
>
> Then tell Windows 10 it's okay to create symlinks without elevated rights. Here 
> is a link with a description how to do this.
> https://www.joshkel.com/2018/01/18/symlinks-in-windows/
>
> I think since commit bf708f3c4a "optionrom: simplify Makefile" 
> pc-bios/optionrom/Makefile in your build directory has to be a symbolic link. Without 
> 'set MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict' msys2 ln -s copies the Makefile instead of creating a 
> symbolic link.

Wow thanks for this. I had the same issue as Howard, and I can confirm that this 
fixes the problem for me. Having said that it was quite fiddly to get this working 
correctly - is there any reason why 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-09/msg06997.html still can't be 
merged?


ATB,

Mark.