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From: Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile <navasile@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Nick Connolly <nick.connolly@mayadata.io>
Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Ranjit Menon <ranjit.menon@intel.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com, dmitrym@microsoft.com,
	pallavi.kadam@intel.com, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] build: fix symlink of drivers for Windows
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:53:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210424005354.GA2117@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210410080143.21279-1-nick.connolly@mayadata.io>

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 09:01:43AM +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 <nick.connolly@mayadata.io>
> ---
>  buildtools/symlink-drivers-solibs.py | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  config/meson.build                   |  4 +++
>  2 files changed, 53 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 buildtools/symlink-drivers-solibs.py
> 
> diff --git a/buildtools/symlink-drivers-solibs.py b/buildtools/symlink-drivers-solibs.py

Tested-by: Narcisa Vasile <navasile@linux.microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Narcisa Vasile <navasile@linux.microsoft.com>

Note that it needs rebasing.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-24  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-01 12:27 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Nick Connolly
2021-04-04  0:00 ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-04-06 10:24   ` Nick Connolly
2021-04-10  8:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Nick Connolly
2021-04-24  0:53   ` Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile [this message]
2021-04-26 10:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Nick Connolly
2021-05-27 17:37   ` Nick Connolly
2021-05-28  8:19     ` Bruce Richardson
2021-05-28 10:50       ` Nick Connolly
2021-05-28  8:19   ` Bruce Richardson
2021-07-09 15:05     ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Thomas Monjalon

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