Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: fix symlink of drivers for Windows

[Nick Connolly <nick.connolly@mayadata.io>]

> PDB (debuginfo) files can be quite large, do we want to install them?
The script copies will only copy the .pdb files if they have already 
been installed into
lib/dpdk/pmds-*/. If they haven't, we'll just skip the step.

Whether they should be installed is a different question :-) Installing 
them seems to
be a deliberate choice by meson 
(https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1442).
In my opinion, it's probably best to have them there.

I looked at options apart from copying (including hard links) but in the 
end decided to
keep it as simple as possible so it will 'just work' for cross builds 
from Linux, WSL-1,
WSL-2, Msys, Cygnus etc.

> +meson.add_install_script(py3, '../buildtools/symlink-drivers-solibs.py',
> +	get_option('libdir'), pmd_subdir_opt, get_option('bindir'))
>   
>   # set the machine type and cflags for it
>   if meson.is_cross_build()
> As you may have seen, build fails because find_program() result cannot be
> used in meson.add_install_script() until 0.55. Since your script has
> Unix-specific part anyway and Windows recommends Meson 0.56, maybe Unices
> should continue using shell variant and Python script can be Windows-only.

Yes, I 'd been thinking about the best way to handle this. Your 
suggestion of having both
scripts may well be the best option in the short term.

Thanks,
Nick