Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/windows: export all built functions for clang

[Tal Shnaiderman <talshn@nvidia.com>]

> From: Ranjit Menon <ranjit.menon@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal/windows: export all built functions for clang 
> 
> Hi Tal,
> 
> On 10/2/2020 12:18 PM, Tal Shnaiderman wrote:
> > export for clang build all the functions currently built on Windows
> > and listed in rte_eal_version.map by adding them to
> > rte_eal_exports.def.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tal Shnaiderman <talshn@nvidia.com>
> > ---
> 
> While you are at this, can we sort and re-order the functions alphabetically?
> 
> For instance, I can see some rte_fbarray*, rte_mem*, per_lcore* functions
> in multiple locations.
> 
> Also as an aside, Bruce (in cc:) had suggested in a private thread that we
> should start looking into auto-generating this .def file now that it has most of
> the functions defined in the .map file.
> 
> ranjit m.

Hi Ranjit,

I tried to keep the file structure similar to the original rte_eal_version.map file, in the map file each DPDK release exported additional functions so the whole file isn't sorted but each release section is.

I not sure however if you can add the comments separating the sections to the def file.

Regarding autogenerating this file, there is actually an open task on it, MSFT team are on it and DmitryK even suggested a way to generate it using DUMPBIN, however until this is done we should have all the exported functions updated in the def file.