[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] build for DPDK with meson and ninja

[Shreyansh Jain]

Hello Bruce,

On Wednesday 07 June 2017 04:17 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> to use, need to have meson >= 0.4 and ninja-build packages installed.
> 
> Then do the following in main DPDK directory:
> 
> meson build
> cd build
> ninja
> sudo ninja install
> 
> This will compile up some DPDK libs, the FVL PMD and testpmd and install
> them in /usr/local/. [On Fedora you will need to add /usr/local/lib64 to
> your ld path, it's not there by default.]
> Then you can run testpmd as e.g.
> 

<...snip...>

> diff --git a/test/test/meson.build b/test/test/meson.build
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..cc85408
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/test/test/meson.build
> @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
> +executable('dpdk-test',
> +	sources: [
> +		'commands.c',
> +		'packet_burst_generator.c',
> +		'test.c',
> +		'test_acl.c',
> +		'test_cmdline.c',
> +		'test_cmdline_cirbuf.c',
> +		'test_cmdline_etheraddr.c',
> +		'test_cmdline_ipaddr.c',
> +		'test_cmdline_lib.c',
> +		'test_cmdline_num.c',
> +		'test_cmdline_portlist.c',
> +		'test_cmdline_string.c',
> +		'test_cpuflags.c',
> +		'test_mp_secondary.c',
> +		'test_pmd_perf.c',
> +		'test_ring.c',
> +		'test_ring_perf.c'
> +	],
> +	dependencies: [rte_eal, rte_ring, rte_mempool, rte_cmdline,
> +		rte_mbuf, rte_net, rte_ether, rte_acl],
> +	install: true)

<..snip..>

I tried this with x86 and it worked like a charm. Really nice and clean
way to build DPDK - and super fast. Awesome.

I want to use this for an ARM target. Any idea what I should change in
meson.build? Or, is that even straightforward?
(Yes, I can lookup documentation for meson - just being lazy. If you
don't have much idea, I will give this a spin on ARM in a couple of
days)

-
Shreyansh