NOTE: Compiling and installing DPDK using ``meson`` and ``ninja``, rather
than using ``make`` (GNU make) is EXPERIMENTAL. Official builds of DPDK
should always be done using ``make``, as described in the ``Getting Started
-Guide`` documentation, and at "http://dpdk.org/doc/quick-start".
+Guide`` documentation, and at "http://core.dpdk.org/doc/quick-start".
Summary
--------
meson -Dmax_lcores=8 smallbuild # scale build for smaller systems
+ meson -Denable_docs=true fullbuild # build and install docs
+
Examples of setting the same options using meson configure::
meson configure -Dwerror=true
Use ``ninja install`` to install the required DPDK files onto the system.
The install prefix defaults to ``/usr/local`` but can be used as with other
-options above. The environment variable ``DEST_DIR`` can be used to adjust
+options above. The environment variable ``DESTDIR`` can be used to adjust
the root directory for the install, for example when packaging.
With the base install directory, the individual directories for libraries
build:
@mkdir -p $@
+
+NOTE: for --static builds, DPDK needs to be built with Meson >= 0.46 in order to
+fully generate the list of private dependencies. If DPDK is built with an older
+version of Meson, it might be necessary to manually specify dependencies of DPDK
+PMDs/libraries, for example -lmlx5 -lmnl for librte-pmd-mlx5, or the static link
+step might fail.