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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:15 AM Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> wrote:
> ...
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Mark None    39424 Aug 25 20:43 vgabios-stdvga.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Mark None    39424 Aug 25 20:43 vgabios-virtio.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Mark None    39424 Aug 25 20:43 vgabios-vmware.bin
>
>
> I would expect the majority of these files to be in share/ or bin/ 
> subdirectories as
> they are in Linux.

This has always been different between Windows and Linux:

if test "$mingw32" = "yes" ; then
    mandir="$prefix"
    datadir="$prefix"
    qemu_docdir="$prefix"
    bindir="$prefix"
    sysconfdir="$prefix"
    local_statedir=
else
    mandir="${mandir:-$prefix/share/man}"
    datadir="${datadir:-$prefix/share}"
    qemu_docdir="${qemu_docdir:-$prefix/share/doc/qemu}"
    bindir="${bindir:-$prefix/bin}"
    sysconfdir="${sysconfdir:-$prefix/etc}"
    local_statedir="${local_statedir:-$prefix/var}"
fi

See also how os_find_datadir() is different between Windows and POSIX.
I plan to fix this mess (and incidentally the pre_prefix hack) in 5.2
by making the installation relocatable.

Paolo