Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] config: discover libpcap on Windows

[Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>]

2021-02-25 16:33, Bruce Richardson:
> 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?

pkg-config itself works on Windows if installed and given a PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

Npcap doesn't provide a .pc file, despite libpcap commit 4f6b2b99 having it.
Another quirk is that library is named libpcap.a/wpcap.lib on Unix/Windows.
I can just handle the name difference and assume it's in the search path.