[PATCH v3] doc: enhance build instructions on Windows

Andre Muezerie andremue at linux.microsoft.com
Mon Oct 28 20:45:49 CET 2024


Enhance build instructions on Windows

Signed-off-by: Andre Muezerie <andremue at linux.microsoft.com>
---
v3:
 - Recommended Meson version to use and removed mention about old bug.
 - Set VS developer prompt to produce 64 bit binaries if needed.
v2:
 - provide Meson version that works

 .mailmap                              |  1 +
 doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 5290420..60db768 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ Anatolii Gerasymenko <anatolii.gerasymenko at intel.com>
 Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
 Anbarasan Murugesan <anbarasanx.murugesan at intel.com>
 Anders Roxell <anders.roxell at linaro.org>
+Andre Muezerie <andremue at linux.microsoft.com> <andremue at microsoft.com>
 Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange at redhat.com>
 Andrea Grandi <andrea.grandi at intel.com>
 Andre Richter <andre.o.richter at gmail.com>
diff --git a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
index 708875c..c81a818 100644
--- a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
@@ -72,10 +72,7 @@ A good option to choose is the MSI installer for both meson and ninja together::
 
 	http://mesonbuild.com/Getting-meson.html#installing-meson-and-ninja-with-the-msi-installer%22
 
-Required version is Meson 0.57.
-
-Versions starting from 0.58 are unusable with LLVM toolchain
-because of a `Meson issue <https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/8981>`_.
+Meson version 1.5.2 or newer is recommended.
 
 
 Install the Backend
@@ -129,11 +126,23 @@ Depending on the distribution, paths in this file may need adjustments.
 Option 3. Native Build on Windows using MSVC
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Open a 'Developer PowerShell for VS 2022' prompt from the start menu.
+Open a 'Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt'.
 The developer prompt will configure the environment
 to select the appropriate compiler, linker and SDK paths
 required to build with Visual Studio 2022.
 
+Windows 32-bit is currently not supported, so if your Visual Studio environment defaults
+to 32-bits you can instruct the toolset to produce 64-bit binaries using "-arch" parameter.
+For more details about the Developer Prompt options look at the `Visual Studio Developer
+Command Prompt and Developer PowerShell
+<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/reference/command-prompt-powershell?view=vs-2022>`_.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+    "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat" -arch=amd64
+
+Compile the code from the developer prompt.
+
 .. code-block:: console
 
    cd C:\Users\me\dpdk
-- 
1.8.3.1



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