Building Elfutils with Mingw32

[McAllister, Colin]

Hi Ulf,

I did see that there were quite a few patches sent to the ML toward the end of 2022 that attempted to add Windows support.
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2022q4/005449.html
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2022q4/005667.html

It looks like some of the patches were merged, but quite a few were never applied. I'm wondering if it'd be possible to finish adding support upstream such that a fork would no longer be needed?

I would be happy to help contribute however I can.

Best,
Colin

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From: Ulf Hermann <ulf.hermann@qt.io> 
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Hi,

keeping the windows/elfutils fork up to date definitely is a lot of work, which is why I haven't found the time to do it for a while.
However, perfparser could in fact also use debuginfod (with some caveats).

I guess that some more of my patches could be upstreamed if properly cleaned up. A rebase rather than a merge may be more conductive to this.

All I can do right now is tell you that I'd be happy about any contribution. The repository I've been using still exists and accepts outside contributions. See https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://codereview.qt-project.org/q/repo:qt-creator/elfutils__;!!EJc4YC3iFmQ!V-n1VhUSf6Zz6kOtv6XIbgO0el_54wkfPU0fV7nrQMXmpser6j6-rFUtlaE2bw6kNlqXpIYTJpkFBTF13J0n02PTDg$  . You have to go through the Qt CLA process to work with it, but the CLA is largely meaningless in this case. I'd be happy to move the repository to a more "official" place without CLA.

There have also been other people on this mailing list talking about porting elfutils to windows. Maybe if we combine our efforts we'll actually find a way to maintain a port.

best regards,
Ulf