From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B6DFA0547 for ; Fri, 28 May 2021 10:19:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E975410E9; Fri, 28 May 2021 10:19:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F47D40040; Fri, 28 May 2021 10:19:16 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-SDR: HCWOOdZ+2kvhuUd0o7rZSTv7YNx2+lGO4tekZPDFn6LtlnHFcnWgeuUx3Uvd/+A25QjIl36vKi ZSN/t3rZKwbg== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,9997"; a="202955012" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.83,229,1616482800"; d="scan'208";a="202955012" Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 28 May 2021 01:19:13 -0700 IronPort-SDR: NamjPpHXJxsTZL3r15+AE28brDTNqxmjykuFZoQoa1QHKh6R4PtSlY3ofHc0VThC3hliBu8+2c pq+TXJBP2FKQ== X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.83,229,1616482800"; d="scan'208";a="548511116" Received: from bricha3-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.252.7.179]) by fmsmga001-auth.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 28 May 2021 01:19:10 -0700 Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 09:19:06 +0100 From: Bruce Richardson To: Nick Connolly Cc: Ranjit Menon , dev@dpdk.org, dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com, navasile@linux.microsoft.com, dmitrym@microsoft.com, pallavi.kadam@intel.com, stable@dpdk.org Message-ID: References: <20210401122723.23082-1-nick.connolly@mayadata.io> <20210426100733.22478-1-nick.connolly@mayadata.io> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210426100733.22478-1-nick.connolly@mayadata.io> Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3] build: fix symlink of drivers for Windows X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: stable-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "stable" On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 11:07:32AM +0100, Nick Connolly wrote: > The symlink-drivers-solibs.sh script was disabled as part of 'install' > for Windows because there is no support for shell scripts. However, > this means that driver related DLLs are not present in the installed > 'libdir' directory. Add a python script to perform the install and use > it for Windows if the version of meson supports using an external > program with add_install_script (>= 0.55.0). > > On Windows, symbolic links are somewhat problematic since the > SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is required to be able to create them. > In addition, different cross-compilation environments handle symbolic > links differently, e.g. WSL, Msys2, Cygwin. Rather than trying to > distinguish these scenarios, the python script will perform a file copy > for any Windows specific names. > > On Windows, the shared library outputs have different names depending > upon which toolset has been used to build them. The script currently > handles Clang and GCC. > > On Linux the functionality is unchanged, but could be replaced with the > python script once the required minimum version of meson is >= 0.55.0. > > Fixes: 5c7d86948764 ("build: fix install on Windows") > Cc: stable@dpdk.org > > Signed-off-by: Nick Connolly > Tested-by: Narcisa Vasile > Acked-by: Narcisa Vasile > --- Reviewed-by: Bruce Richardson