[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/3] eal: disable function versioning on Windows

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 02:32:39PM +0300, Fady Bader wrote:
> Function versioning implementation is not supported by Windows.
> Function versioning is disabled on Windows.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fady Bader <fady at mellanox.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst | 4 ++++
>  lib/meson.build                  | 6 +++++-
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst
> index a0285732df..58c6246404 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst
> @@ -18,3 +18,7 @@ DPDK for Windows is currently a work in progress. Not all DPDK source files
>  compile. Support is being added in pieces so as to limit the overall scope
>  of any individual patch series. The goal is to be able to run any DPDK
>  application natively on Windows.
> +
> +The :doc:`../contributing/abi_policy` cannot be respected for Windows.
> +Minor ABI versions may be incompatible
> +because function versioning is not supported on Windows.
> diff --git a/lib/meson.build b/lib/meson.build
> index c1b9e1633f..dadf151f78 100644
> --- a/lib/meson.build
> +++ b/lib/meson.build
> @@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ foreach l:libraries
>  			shared_dep = declare_dependency(include_directories: includes)
>  			static_dep = shared_dep
>  		else
> +			if is_windows and use_function_versioning
> +				message('@0@: Function versioning is not supported by Windows.'
> +				.format(name))
> +			endif
>  

This is ok here, but I think it might be better just moved to somewhere
like config/meson.build, so that it is always just printed once for each
build. I don't see an issue with having it printed even if there is no
function versioning in the build itself.

>  			if use_function_versioning
>  				cflags += '-DRTE_USE_FUNCTION_VERSIONING'
> @@ -138,7 +142,7 @@ foreach l:libraries
>  					include_directories: includes,
>  					dependencies: static_deps)
>  
> -			if not use_function_versioning
> +			if not use_function_versioning or is_windows
>  				# use pre-build objects to build shared lib
>  				sources = []
>  				objs += static_lib.extract_all_objects(recursive: false)
> -- 
> 2.16.1.windows.4
> 

With or without the code move above, which is just a suggestion,

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>