1 files changed, 32 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/rust/qemu-api/build.rs b/rust/qemu-api/build.rs
index 20f8f718b9..471e6c633d 100644
--- a/rust/qemu-api/build.rs
+++ b/rust/qemu-api/build.rs
@@ -2,17 +2,41 @@
 // Author(s): Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 
-use std::path::Path;
+#[cfg(unix)]
+use std::os::unix::fs::symlink as symlink_file;
+#[cfg(windows)]
+use std::os::windows::fs::symlink_file;
+use std::{env, fs::remove_file, io::Result, path::Path};
 
 use version_check as rustc;
 
-fn main() {
-    if !Path::new("src/bindings.rs").exists() {
-        panic!(
-            "No generated C bindings found! Either build them manually with bindgen or with meson \
-             (`ninja bindings.rs`) and copy them to src/bindings.rs, or build through meson."
-        );
+fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    // Placing bindings.inc.rs in the source directory is supported
+    // but not documented or encouraged.
+    let path = env::var("MESON_BUILD_ROOT")
+        .unwrap_or_else(|_| format!("{}/src", env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")));
+
+    let file = format!("{}/bindings.inc.rs", path);
+    let file = Path::new(&file);
+    if !Path::new(&file).exists() {
+        panic!(concat!(
+            "\n",
+            "    No generated C bindings found! Maybe you wanted one of\n",
+            "    `make clippy`, `make rustfmt`, `make rustdoc`?\n",
+            "\n",
+            "    For other uses of `cargo`, start a subshell with\n",
+            "    `pyvenv/bin/meson devenv`, or point MESON_BUILD_ROOT to\n",
+            "    the top of the build tree."
+        ));
+    }
+
+    let out_dir = env::var("OUT_DIR").unwrap();
+    let dest_path = format!("{}/bindings.inc.rs", out_dir);
+    let dest_path = Path::new(&dest_path);
+    if dest_path.symlink_metadata().is_ok() {
+        remove_file(dest_path)?;
     }
+    symlink_file(file, dest_path)?;
 
     // Check for available rustc features
     if rustc::is_min_version("1.77.0").unwrap_or(false) {
@@ -20,4 +44,5 @@ fn main() {
     }
 
     println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=build.rs");
+    Ok(())
 }