Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] build: fix symlink of drivers for Windows

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 11:07:32AM +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>
> Tested-by: Narcisa Vasile <navasile@linux.microsoft.com>
> Acked-by: Narcisa Vasile <navasile@linux.microsoft.com>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>