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://core.dpdk.org/doc/quick-start".
-
Summary
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For many platforms, compiling and installing DPDK should work using the
meson -Denable_docs=true fullbuild # build and install docs
+ meson -Dmachine=default # use builder-independent baseline -march
+
Examples of setting the same options using meson configure::
meson configure -Dwerror=true
``ninja`` is called to do the build itself, it will trigger the necessary
re-scan from meson.
+NOTE: machine=default uses a config that works on all supported architectures
+regardless of the capabilities of the machine where the build is happening.
+
As well as those settings taken from ``meson configure``, other options
such as the compiler to use can be passed via environment variables. For
example::
For example if the target machine is arm64 we can use the following
command::
- meson arm-build --cross-file config/arm/arm64_armv8_linuxapp_gcc
+ meson arm-build --cross-file config/arm/arm64_armv8_linux_gcc
-where config/arm/arm64_armv8_linuxapp_gcc contains the following
+where config/arm/arm64_armv8_linux_gcc contains the following
parameters::
[binaries]