[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] config: discover libpcap on Windows

[Dmitry Kozlyuk]

2021-03-16 10:16 (UTC+0100), Thomas Monjalon:
> 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:    
[...]
> > 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.

Good idea, but I can't tell how soon they do'll it.

> > 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.

I have v3 that relies on search paths only with just a library name fixup.
It's blocked by [2] and, transitively, by [1].

[1]: http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=15513
[1]: http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=15640