[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] eal/windows: fix symbol export

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 04:48:59PM +0100, Kinsella, Ray wrote:
> 
> On 16/10/2020 12:22, David Marchand wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 1:16 PM Kinsella, Ray <mdr at ashroe.eu> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> The windows exports and the map files, feels like duplication of effort.
> >> Could we massage one into the other during the build?
> > 
> > That's what is done with map-to-win.py, unless we have one exception
> > when the full library is not ready, like EAL.
> > 
> > https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/lib/meson.build#n152
> > https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/buildtools/map_to_win.py#n27
> > 
> 
> Thinking about this again - future work might be to check if a .def exists.
> And then to warn in checkpatch if one is modified without the other?
> 
Possibly, but right now there is only the one .def override file, for EAL,
and a better use of effort is to close the gap between windows and other
versions so that it can be removed completely.

$ find lib/ drivers/ -name *.def
lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_exports.def

/Bruce