GoKawiilWindows XP ia64 build 2600 in all it’s glory
This is exciting news, there is a fork of Qemu that has workable Itanium Merced emulation, and it’s good enough to run Windows XP/2003! Enter Malte Kuhlmann‘s Qemu fork of syunnPC‘s AI Itanium infused Qemu fork.
I’m sure at some point there will be some kind of merger. As always things move fast when they are interesting.
At any rate, I had nothing but incredible issues getting this to build. I should have written the steps down for the Qemu Alpha for that can run Alph64 Windows! … .however I didn’t so I kind of lost (hopefully temperarily) the recipies needed.
Instead, I’m jumping back to my mac mini, as of course macOS is just enough UNIX to be useful but mainstream enough to have real application. And part of the reason is that I wanted to build the firmware as I had a feeling that this was some important ‘lockstep’ thing I was missing.
Building cross compilers isn’t that new for me or this blog. As a matter of fact, I’ve got two at the moment from other various projects:
jsteve@Jasons-Mac-mini gcc % /usr/local/os2/bin/i386-pc-linux-gnuaout-gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/local/os2/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnuaout/2.8.1/specs gcc version 2.8.1 jsteve@Jasons-Mac-mini gcc % /usr/local/i586-linux2/bin/i586-linux-gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/local/i586-linux2/lib/gcc-lib/i586-linux/2.8.1/specs gcc version 2.8.1
Since GCC 2.8.1 seems to run ‘okay’ as a macOS arm64 binary to cross compile to the i386… But that’s not for here. Since this is a ‘modern’ build, there was no need for any funny business. Things just worked. Surprisngly, I know. Obviously for people years later this won’t hold true.
Binutils
Nothing much to see or say, just used binutils 2.46.0, and it configured/built out of the box. Nice.
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