Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] common/mlx5: get Windows dependency from standard variables

From: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Tal Shnaiderman <talshn@nvidia.com>,
	Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>,
	Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] common/mlx5: get Windows dependency from standard variables
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 13:09:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230303210919.GA20309@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6660069.gtipl9YmvM@thomas>

On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 03:12:19PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 02/03/2023 18:17, Tyler Retzlaff:
> > On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 02:21:48PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > The DevX library path had to be provided through the variables
> > > DEVX_INC_PATH and DEVX_LIB_PATH.
> > > It was non-standard and triggers some issues with recent Meson.
> > 
> > is it possible for meson to search the default install location that the
> > devx sdk installation is normally located on windows? then only if you
> > installed it to some silly non-default location you have to provide
> > CFLAGS/LDFLAGS?
> 
> Meson will look into standard system directories I guess,
> but DevX is never installed in a system directory.
> Which path do you have in mind?

i think when i install the sdk it goes here by default if i just mash
the next button. is it wrong to take a look at this path by default?

C:\Program Files\Mellanox\MLNX_WinOF2_DevX_SDK\{inc,lib}

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