Re: meson: problems building under msys2/mingw-w64 native

[Gerd Hoffmann]

> 2) GTK UI now depends on CONFIG_VTE
> 
> This one I spotted on my local Linux setup as I didn't have the libvte-dev 
> package
> installed and couldn't understand why I couldn't run QEMU with the GTK UI as 
> I always
> do, even though configure reported that it found the GTK library and headers.
> 
> A quick search showed that the GTK UI was being guarded by "if
> config_host.has_key('CONFIG_GTK') and config_host.has_key('CONFIG_VTE')" in
> ui/meson.build.

That is not correct.  vte is intentionally not a hard dependency ...

> For me the easy solution was to install libvte-dev, but since there are no VTE
> packages for Windows my guess is this will now make the GTK UI unavailable for
> Windows users.

.. because we don't have that on windows.

I think simply dropping the "and config_host.has_key('CONFIG_VTE')"
should work, can you try that?

thanks,
  Gerd