INSTALLING DPDK USING THE MESON BUILD SYSTEM
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-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".
-
Summary
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For many platforms, compiling and installing DPDK should work using the
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.