Windows support? about cannonball HOT 3 CLOSED

I've been meaning for a while to move this crate to the method I use for a newer bindings crate I've been working on, https://github.com/novafacing/yices2-rs, which uses the method you described (vendored source in a tarball extracted and built in build.rs). Maybe that would work here? I'm totally ok with the idea, and happy for you to give it a go (I'm unfortunately too busy, probably for the rest of the year 😭).

QEMU sources are quite big, my preference for the large files is LFS personally but I'm open to suggestions.

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Fundamentally, the cannonball library only needs qemu_plugin.h and qemu_plugin_api.lib to build a .dll file that can be used as a plugin. The examples need the qemu_rs crate to do the 'embedding the whole qemu binary' thing, but I'm not so interested in that.

Options:

1. Embed whole source (you're right, unpleasantly big). Could be a git submodule?
2. Download source (this is what it does now, I guess), but maybe without (all) the building.
3. Download binary and extract header and qemu_plugin_api.lib (once qemu 8.2 gets released).
4. Store just header and qemu_plugin_api.lib in cannonball (ok, but how to update it? do that when? manually?)

I'm toying around with number 4 at the moment. Mostly because it's easiest to get started. I'll have a go and let you know where I get up to.

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Windows should work with the qemu-plugin crate. I'm deprecating this crate in favor of that one, as it's just all around much better code. All the good stuff from here is there, and there's no junk to get in the way.

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