[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] MinGW-w64 support

[William Tu]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 10:44 PM Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This patch series add support for building DPDK using MinGW-w64.
>
> MinGW-w64 provides GNU toolchain and independent platform SDK on
> Windows. It also supports cross-compilation to Windows from POSIX
> systems by providing cross tollchains and libraries [0]. It does NOT
> emulate a full POSIX environment, like Cygwin or MSYS do.
>
> There are advantages in using MinGW-w64 in addition to Clang:
>
> 1. Cross-compilation out-of-the-box. MinGW-w64 is provides a pthread
>    implementation, GNU getopt, and Windows platform SDK.
>
> 2. Easier porting of POSIX applications using DPDK to Windows, because
>    application code can use the same benefits as mentioned above.
>
> 3. Having both primary compilers enabled on Windows provides more
>    diagnostics and generally prevents non-portable code.
>
> [0]: http://mingw-w64.org
>
> v2 Changes:
>
>     Add patch to use lowercase system header filenames.
>     Move Meson cross-file for x86 to arch directory.
>     Change wording in comments.
>     Add Meson version warning in documentation.
>
> Dmitry Kozlyuk (7):
>   eal: introduce portable format attribute
>   eal: use portable format attribute
>   cmdline: use portable format attribute
>   eal/windows: use lowercase filenames for system headers
>   build: MinGW-w64 support for Meson
>   build: add cross-file for MinGW-w64
>   doc: guide for Windows build using MinGW-w64
>
>  config/meson.build                          | 14 +++++
>  config/x86/meson_mingw.txt                  | 14 +++++
>  doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst       | 65 ++++++++++++++++++---
>  lib/librte_cmdline/cmdline.h                |  4 +-
>  lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h  | 17 +++++-
>  lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_debug.h   |  2 +-
>  lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_devargs.h |  2 +-
>  lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_log.h     |  4 +-
>  lib/librte_eal/meson.build                  |  3 +
>  lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/rte_os.h |  4 +-
>  lib/meson.build                             |  8 ++-
>  11 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 config/x86/meson_mingw.txt
>
> --
> 2.25.0
>
Hi Dmitry,

I applied your v2 patch and I did a native build on windows 10.
Hit an error showing
../lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/eal_lcore.c:54:2: error: 'for' loop
initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode
  for (unsigned int socket = 0; socket <
  ^
../lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/eal_lcore.c:54:2: note: use option
-std=c99 or -std=gnu99 to compile your code

Then I fixed them by having separate declaration out side for loop.
then
$ ninja -C build
works

However the output looks weird:
C:\dpdk\build\examples>dpdk-helloworld.exe
EAL: Detected 2 lcore(s)
EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes
hehello fllo frorom cm core 1
ore 0

Regards,
William

--- more detailed ---
C:\dpdk>meson -v
0.53.999

C:\dpdk>gcc -v
Reading specs from c:/mingw-w64/bin/../lib64/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.8.3/specs
COLLECT_GCC=gcc


C:\dpdk>meson --reconfigure -Dexamples=helloworld build
The Meson build system
Version: 0.53.999
Source dir: C:\dpdk
Build dir: C:\dpdk\build
Build type: native build
Program cat found: NO
Program more found: YES (C:\WINDOWS\system32\more.COM)
Project name: DPDK
Project version: 20.02.0-rc2
C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 4.8.3 "cc (GCC) 4.8.3")
C linker for the host machine: cc GNU ld.bfd 2.24
Host machine cpu family: x86_64
Host machine cpu: x86_64
Program cat found: NO
Program more found: YES (C:\WINDOWS\system32\more.COM)
Program ../buildtools/symlink-drivers-solibs.sh found: YES (sh
C:\dpdk\config\../buildtools/symlink-drivers-so
libs.sh)
Checking for size of "void *" : 8
Library m found: YES
Library numa found: NO
Found pkg-config: C:\mingw-w64\bin\pkg-config.EXE (0.25)