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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@microsoft.com>,
	Mike Wells <mike.wells@telchemy.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] config: discover libpcap on Windows
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 10:16:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2777528.d7l0ZQ1OWI@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210225204230.117a41fe@sovereign>

25/02/2021 18:42, Dmitry Kozlyuk:
> 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.

Please work with them to provide a .pc.

> 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.

Yes please avoid adding a meson option for a path.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-16  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-14  1:20 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] net/pcap: build " Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-14  1:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/6] eal: add internal API for current time Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-03-01 22:31   ` Nick Connolly
2021-03-01 22:36     ` Nick Connolly
2021-02-14  1:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/6] net/pcap: fix format string Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-03-01 22:33   ` Nick Connolly
2021-02-14  1:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/6] net/pcap: move OS-dependent code to separate files Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-14  1:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/6] net/pcap: add libpcap wrappers Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-14  1:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/6] config: discover libpcap on Windows Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-14  1:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/6] net/pcap: build " Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-14  2:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] " Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-14  2:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] eal: add internal API for current time Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-03-01 22:39     ` Nick Connolly
2021-03-05 17:50     ` Jie Zhou
2021-03-16  9:18     ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-03-16 18:59     ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-03-16 20:07       ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-03-17  9:50         ` Morten Brørup
2021-02-14  2:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] net/pcap: fix format string Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-25 14:45     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-03-02 11:48       ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Ferruh Yigit
2021-02-14  2:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/6] net/pcap: move OS-dependent code to separate files Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-25 14:51     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-02-25 16:05       ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-14  2:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] net/pcap: add libpcap wrappers Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-25 14:59     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-02-25 19:04       ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-25 20:31         ` Nick Connolly
2021-02-25 23:10           ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-03-01 21:43             ` Nick Connolly
2021-03-01 23:05               ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-03-01 23:23                 ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-03-02 11:22                 ` Nick Connolly
2021-03-03 16:32                   ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-03-03 16:47                     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-03-03 18:19                       ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-03-03 19:30                         ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-03-03 23:03                           ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-14  2:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] config: discover libpcap on Windows Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-25 15:02     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-02-25 16:04       ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-25 16:33         ` Bruce Richardson
2021-02-25 17:42           ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-03-16  9:16             ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2021-03-16  9:37               ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-02-14  2:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] net/pcap: build " Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-03-24  0:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] " Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-03-24  0:50     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] eal/windows: add timespec_get shim for MinGW Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-03-24  0:50     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/3] net/pcap: move OS-dependent code to separate files Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-03-24  0:50     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] net/pcap: build on Windows Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-04-09 10:51     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] " Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-09 11:03       ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-04-09 11:24         ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-15 22:10     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 " Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-04-15 22:10       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/3] eal/windows: add timespec_get shim for MinGW Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-04-15 22:10       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] net/pcap: move OS-dependent code to separate files Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-04-15 22:10       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/3] net/pcap: build on Windows Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-04-19 21:05         ` Tyler Retzlaff
2021-04-16 17:22       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] " Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-20 22:20       ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-21 14:53         ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-04-21 18:12           ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-21 19:33       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 " Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-04-21 19:33         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/3] eal: add timespec_get shim Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-04-21 19:33         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/3] net/pcap: move OS-dependent code to separate files Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-04-21 19:33         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/3] net/pcap: build on Windows Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-04-21 21:54         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/3] " Thomas Monjalon

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