In native builds, qemu can fail to find zlib development files in the native sysroot and the build machine might not have zlib-dev packages installed. Add CFLAGS to qemu's CFLAGS which in the native case means BUILD_CFLAGS are added and files in the sysroot can be found. Patch from Paul Eggleton, Comments by RP 28/11/10 Index: qemu-0.12.4/configure =================================================================== --- qemu-0.12.4.orig/configure +++ qemu-0.12.4/configure @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wstrict-prototypes -Wredun QEMU_CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE $QEMU_CFLAGS" QEMU_CFLAGS="-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE $QEMU_CFLAGS" QEMU_CFLAGS="-I. -I\$(SRC_PATH) $QEMU_CFLAGS" +QEMU_CFLAGS="$QEMU_CFLAGS $CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="-g $LDFLAGS" gcc_flags="-Wold-style-declaration -Wold-style-definition"