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 79DE5A034F; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:33:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FCFA406B4; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:33:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2590540692 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:33:48 +0100 (CET) IronPort-SDR: GjIrRnuGXuGKG5dEDGhzucYwy2YfKZUWyuIDImo4Od7CPVHgkRnzAcSmEbJT1pUNd6E9wD/34C y/RaGd3zbtdw== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9906"; a="185639432" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.81,206,1610438400"; d="scan'208";a="185639432" Received: from orsmga008.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.65]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 25 Feb 2021 08:33:47 -0800 IronPort-SDR: MMY8WORjOlHZJH3u31AVtLRR8e2FlvLGkmPDe9RfnW35O7DYwoDMcnPvJyiOZJVLB9gKNotNkz CIO39f7YIi7Q== X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.81,206,1610438400"; d="scan'208";a="404443720" Received: from bricha3-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.252.17.64]) by orsmga008-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 25 Feb 2021 08:33:43 -0800 Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:33:37 +0000 From: Bruce Richardson To: Dmitry Kozlyuk Cc: Ferruh Yigit , dev@dpdk.org, Tyler Retzlaff , Mike Wells Message-ID: <20210225163337.GA1575@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <20210214012013.23165-1-dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com> <20210214021616.26970-1-dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com> <20210214021616.26970-6-dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com> <3e151d9d-7d80-41c8-8ade-d04aaedff687@intel.com> <20210225190438.56dfdd40@sovereign> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210225190438.56dfdd40@sovereign> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] config: discover libpcap on Windows X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 07:04:38PM +0300, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote: > 2021-02-25 15:02, Ferruh Yigit: > > On 2/14/2021 2:16 AM, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote: > > > WinPcap or Npcap, can be installed anywhere. > > > Add a Meson option to specify SDK path. > > > > > > > I am not sure if it is OK to add a meson option for this, can't we use the > > default path? > > > > And does this mean we will need to add an option for each dependent library in > > Windows? If not, why pcap is special? > > There are some meson options for SDK paths already. Are they exceptions? > Right now, yes, they are exceptions, but there is work underway to remove them and just replace them with use of pkg-config. Is there some automatic path discovery mechanism on windows, similar to pkg-config, that can be used rather than having to add explicit dependency paths? /bruce