On Fri, 2019-03-22 at 15:55 -0700, Anand Rawat wrote: > Added documentation to build helloworld example > on windows using meson and clang. Updated the > maintainers list to include windows maintainers. > > Signed-off-by: Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.ka...@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Anand Rawat <anand.ra...@intel.com> > Reviewed-by: Jeff Shaw <jeffrey.b.s...@intel.com> > Reviewed-by: Ranjit Menon <ranjit.me...@intel.com> > --- > > +Install the Linker > +------------------ > + > +Download and install the Build Tools for Visual Studio to link and > build the files > +on windwos, from `Microsoft* website < > https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads>`_.
# I think, Build tools does not have link.exe. Based on my testing, I need to install Micro soft Visual studio community edition get the link.exe. For instance, in my case, link.exe is installed in following URL in Visual Studio, not anywhere in build tools path. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx64\x64 If it is correct then doc needs to be updated. # I could compile and run the dpdk-helloworld.exe, Are following warnings expected? [16/16] Linking target examples/dpdk-helloworld.exe. clang.exe: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-pthread' [- Wunused-command-line-argument] LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/O1'; ignored LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/-no-as-needed'; ignored LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/-start-group'; ignored LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/-end-group'; ignored LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/-no-as-needed'; ignored
