Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 7/8] doc: add documention for windows

[Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>]

On Fri, 2019-03-22 at 15:55 -0700, Anand Rawat wrote:
> Added documentation to build helloworld example
> on windows using meson and clang. Updated the
> maintainers list to include windows maintainers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anand Rawat <anand.rawat@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jeff Shaw <jeffrey.b.shaw@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ranjit Menon <ranjit.menon@intel.com>
> ---
> 
> +Install the Linker
> +------------------
> +
> +Download and install the Build Tools for Visual Studio to link and
> build the files
> +on windwos, from `Microsoft* website <
> https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads>`_.


# I think, Build tools does not have link.exe. Based on my testing, I
need to install Micro soft Visual studio community edition get the
link.exe.

For instance, in my case, link.exe is installed in following URL in
Visual Studio, not anywhere in build tools path.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx64\x64

If it is correct then doc needs to be updated.

# I could compile and run the dpdk-helloworld.exe, Are following
warnings expected?

[16/16] Linking target examples/dpdk-helloworld.exe.
clang.exe: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-pthread' [-
Wunused-command-line-argument]
LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/O1'; ignored
LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/-no-as-needed'; ignored
LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/-start-group'; ignored
LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/-end-group'; ignored
LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/-no-as-needed'; ignored