Build Qemu on OSX

概览：

• Qemu
  • Download Source code
  • Get Dependence
• Build
• Check
• Issues
• Reference

Qemu

Download Source code

wget https://download.qemu.org/qemu-5.0.0.tar.xz
tar -zxvf https://download.qemu.org/qemu-5.0.0.tar.xz

Get Dependence

brew install libtool pkg-config glib gnutls libpng libssh libusb lzo ncurses nettle pixman snappy vde libffi jpeg

Build

cd qemu-5.0.0
./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu,aarch64-softmmu --cc=/usr/bin/clang  --host-cc=/usr/bin/clang --cpu=x86_64 --prefix=/Users/mardan/workspace/qemu --disable-bsd-user --disable-guest-agent --enable-curses --enable-vde --extra-cflags=-DNCURSES_WIDECHAR=1 --enable-cocoa --disable-sdl --disable-gtk

Explain:

• –target-list : CPU Architecture
• –cc : Compiler Name
• –host-cc : Enable localhost Compiler
• –cpu : Optimization for Native
• –prefix : make install path
• –disable,–enable : Modify Featuer

make -j9
make install

Check

Now you can check this(prefix) path:

On me like this

$ pwd
/Users/mardan/workspace/qemu
$ ls
bin			share		include
$ ls bin 
elf2dmp			qemu-img		qemu-nbd		qemu-system-aarch64
qemu-edid		qemu-io			qemu-storage-daemon	qemu-system-x86_64
$ qemu-system-x86_64 --version 
QEMU emulator version 5.0.0
Copyright (c) 2003-2020 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

Issues

• Q

ERROR: User requested feature curses
       configure was not able to find it.
       Install ncurses devel

• A

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig"

Reference

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/qemu.rb

https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Mac