QEMU Build System

Details about how QEMU’s build system works. You will need to understand some of the basics if you are adding new files and targets to the build.

• The QEMU build system architecture
  • Stage 1: configure
    • Modifying configure
    • Python virtual environments and the build process
    • Bundled Python packages
  • Stage 2: Meson
    • Adding checks
    • Support scripts
  • Stage 3: Make
    • Useful make targets
  • Important files for the build system
    • Statically defined files
    • Dynamically created files
• QEMU and Kconfig
  • The Kconfig language
  • Guidelines for writing Kconfig files
  • Writing and modifying default configurations
  • Kconfig.host
• QEMU Documentation
  • hxtool and .hx files
• How to use the QAPI code generator
  • Introduction
  • The QAPI schema language
    • Schema syntax
    • Built-in Types
    • Include directives
    • Pragma directives
    • Enumeration types
    • Type references and array types
    • Struct types
    • Union types
    • Alternate types
    • Commands
    • Events
    • Features
    • Naming rules and reserved names
    • Downstream extensions
    • Configuring the schema
    • Documentation comments
  • Client JSON Protocol introspection
  • Compatibility considerations
  • Code generation
    • Code generated for QAPI types
    • Code generated for visiting QAPI types
    • Code generated for commands
    • Code generated for events
    • Code generated for introspection
• Control-Flow Integrity (CFI)
  • Basics
  • Building with CFI
  • Using QEMU built with CFI
  • Incompatible code with CFI
  • Disabling CFI for a specific function
  • CFI and fuzzing