Re: [dpdk-dev] [SPDK] Re: [dpdklab] Re: [dpdk-ci] [CI] SPDK compilation failures @ DPDK community lab

From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: Nick Connolly <nick.connolly@mayadata.io>
Cc: Storage Performance Development Kit <spdk@lists.01.org>,
	Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>, Brandon Lo <blo@iol.unh.edu>,
	 Lincoln Lavoie <lylavoie@iol.unh.edu>,
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	"ci@dpdk.org" <ci@dpdk.org>,  "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	 Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>,
	 Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile <navasile@linux.microsoft.com>,
	 "Dmitry Malloy (MESHCHANINOV)" <dmitrym@microsoft.com>,
	Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [SPDK] Re: [dpdklab] Re: [dpdk-ci] [CI] SPDK compilation failures @ DPDK community lab
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:15:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8xf0zKSzXUZ0yP8_3rAgN_QqaFqujjtCurXm8ieAP27ng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <465398c0-ac79-758f-040b-7152b41c06bd@mayadata.io>

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:56 AM Nick Connolly
<nick.connolly@mayadata.io> wrote:
> > Rather than maintain dpdk internal dependencies on SPDK side, would it
> > be possible to use pkg-config?
> Hi David,
>
> Are the DPDK pkgconfig files intended to work for Windows builds?

I cannot find a test linking an example for Windows out of meson.

I don't know what the best solution is for linking an application
against DPDK for Windows.
Cc'd dpdk windows maintainers.

>
> I've had a quick look and as far as I can see the dependencies are
> listed correctly,
> but I was less convinced by the use of -Wl,--whole-archive which is
> specific to the
> GNU linker (Clang/Link configuration requires a sequence of
> -Wl,-wholearchive:<library>).

One of the reasons is to avoid statically linked drivers being dropped
by the linker when no explicit reference exists.

-- 
David Marchand