I am trying to compile qemu from source to get my hands dirty with its development. I cloned the package from the repository. I extracted the tarball and started with the configuration using

./configure

when I got the following error:

ERROR: DTC (libfdt) not present. Your options:

         (1) Preferred: Install the DTC (libfdt) devel package

         (2) Fetch the DTC submodule, using:

             git submodule update --init dtc

I tried installing libfdt using sudo apt-get install libfdt-dev but this did not resolve the error.

There is a similar question I have seen but this too could not solve the error I am facing:

• “ERROR: zlib check failed” while compiling Qemu

How do I fix this error to successfully compile qemu from source?

Edit:

Executing git submodule update --init dtc while I am still in the qemu package's directory returned the following error:

fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home)

Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).