20/09/2021 22:11, Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 04:21:03PM +0000, William Tu wrote: > > Currently there are some public headers that include 'sys/queue.h', which > > is not POSIX, but usually provided by the Linux/BSD system library. > > (Not in POSIX.1, POSIX.1-2001, or POSIX.1-2008. Present on the BSDs.) > > The file is missing on Windows. During the Windows build, DPDK uses a > > bundled copy, so building a DPDK library works fine. But when OVS or other > > applications use DPDK as a library, because some DPDK public headers > > include 'sys/queue.h', on Windows, it triggers an error due to no such > > file. > > > > One solution is to install the 'lib/eal/windows/include/sys/queue.h' into > > Windows environment, such as [1]. However, this means DPDK exports the > > functionalities of 'sys/queue.h' into the environment, which might cause > > symbols, macros, headers clashing with other applications. > > > > The patch fixes it by removing the "#include <sys/queue.h>" from > > DPDK public headers, so programs including DPDK headers don't depend > > on the system to provide 'sys/queue.h'. When these public headers use > > macros such as TAILQ_xxx, we replace it by the ones with RTE_ prefix. > > For Windows, we copy the definitions from <sys/queue.h> to rte_os.h > > in Windows EAL. Note that these RTE_ macros are compatible with > > <sys/queue.h>, both at the level of API (to use with <sys/queue.h> > > macros in C files) and ABI (to avoid breaking it). > > > > Additionally, the TAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE is not part of <sys/queue.h>, > > the patch replaces it with RTE_TAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE. > > > > [1] http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-August/216304.html > > > > Suggested-by: Nick Connolly <nick.conno...@mayadata.io> > > Suggested-by: Dmitry Kozliuk <dmitry.kozl...@gmail.com> > > Acked-by: Dmitry Kozliuk <dmitry.kozl...@gmail.com> > > Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012...@gmail.com> > > --- > Acked-by: Narcisa Vasile <navas...@linux.microsoft.com>
Applied, thanks. Note: I had to add a sys/queue.h include in iavf which is now enabled for Windows.
