From: Andre Muezerie <andremue@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>,
Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Andre Muezerie <andremue@linux.microsoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: enhanced build instructions on Windows
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:15:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1729865715-18711-2-git-send-email-andremue@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1729865715-18711-1-git-send-email-andremue@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Muezerie <andremue@linux.microsoft.com>
---
.mailmap | 1 +
doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst | 16 +++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 5290420..60db768 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ Anatolii Gerasymenko <anatolii.gerasymenko@intel.com>
Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Anbarasan Murugesan <anbarasanx.murugesan@intel.com>
Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
+Andre Muezerie <andremue@linux.microsoft.com> <andremue@microsoft.com>
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Andrea Grandi <andrea.grandi@intel.com>
Andre Richter <andre.o.richter@gmail.com>
diff --git a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
index 708875c..c5fad81 100644
--- a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
@@ -72,10 +72,9 @@ A good option to choose is the MSI installer for both meson and ninja together::
http://mesonbuild.com/Getting-meson.html#installing-meson-and-ninja-with-the-msi-installer%22
-Required version is Meson 0.57.
-
-Versions starting from 0.58 are unusable with LLVM toolchain
-because of a `Meson issue <https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/8981>`_.
+Meson version 0.58 was unusable with LLVM toolchain
+because of an `issue <https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/8981>`_, but
+more recent versions are working fine.
Install the Backend
@@ -129,13 +128,20 @@ Depending on the distribution, paths in this file may need adjustments.
Option 3. Native Build on Windows using MSVC
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Open a 'Developer PowerShell for VS 2022' prompt from the start menu.
+Open a 'Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt'. When doing so, it's recommended
+to specify the Target Architecture (-arch) and the Host Architecture (-host_arch).
The developer prompt will configure the environment
to select the appropriate compiler, linker and SDK paths
required to build with Visual Studio 2022.
.. code-block:: console
+ "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat" -host_arch=amd64 -arch=amd64
+
+Compile the code from the developer prompt.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
cd C:\Users\me\dpdk
meson setup -Denable_stdatomic=true build
meson compile -C build
--
1.8.3.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-25 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-25 14:15 [PATCH] doc: enhance build instructions on windows Andre Muezerie
2024-10-25 14:15 ` Andre Muezerie [this message]
2024-10-25 14:50 ` [PATCH] doc: enhanced build instructions on Windows Thomas Monjalon
2024-10-25 19:30 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] doc: enhance build instructions on windows Andre Muezerie
2024-10-25 19:30 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] doc: enhanced build instructions on Windows Andre Muezerie
2024-10-25 19:30 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] doc: provide Meson version that works Andre Muezerie
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