28/05/2021 10:19, Bruce Richardson:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 11:07:32AM +0100, Nick Connolly wrote:
> > The symlink-drivers-solibs.sh script was disabled as part of 'install'
> > for Windows because there is no support for shell scripts. However,
> > this means that driver related DLLs are not present in the installed
> > 'libdir' directory. Add a python script to perform the install and use
> > it for Windows if the version of meson supports using an external
> > program with add_install_script (>= 0.55.0).
> >
> > On Windows, symbolic links are somewhat problematic since the
> > SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege is required to be able to create them.
> > In addition, different cross-compilation environments handle symbolic
> > links differently, e.g. WSL, Msys2, Cygwin. Rather than trying to
> > distinguish these scenarios, the python script will perform a file copy
> > for any Windows specific names.
> >
> > On Windows, the shared library outputs have different names depending
> > upon which toolset has been used to build them. The script currently
> > handles Clang and GCC.
> >
> > On Linux the functionality is unchanged, but could be replaced with the
> > python script once the required minimum version of meson is >= 0.55.0.
> >
> > Fixes: 5c7d86948764 ("build: fix install on Windows")
> > Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Connolly <nick.conno...@mayadata.io>
> > Tested-by: Narcisa Vasile <navas...@linux.microsoft.com>
> > Acked-by: Narcisa Vasile <navas...@linux.microsoft.com>
> > ---
> Reviewed-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
Added the new file in MAINTAINERS.
Applied, thanks.
