Re: Seeking Help Installing Qemu-7.0.0

[Thomas Huth]

On 01/06/2022 06.55, Dennis Newbold wrote:
> The immediate problem is that when I download the tarball and untar it per 
> the instructions,
> then cd to qemu-7.0.0 and do "./configure" I pretty quickly get:
>
> Using './build' as the directory for build output
>
> ERROR: Cannot find Ninja
>
> I do not know what "Ninja" is.  ./configure --help is not particularly 
> helpful, and the web documentation does not even mention the word "ninja" 
> until it is talking about makefiles.
> So ... if anyone knows where "Ninja" is or how I can get it, I would be 
> appreciative.
>
> The context / environment is that I am running on Centos 8.

You likely need:

 yum install ninja-build

We've got some hints here (which is not that obvious to find, I have to admit):


https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Linux#Fedora_Linux_.2F_Debian_GNU_Linux_.2F_Ubuntu_Linux_.2F_Linux_Mint_distributions

 HTH,
  Thomas