doc: modernize build instructions on Windows

Meson 0.57 was an unstable version and is now outdated.
The referenced bug in Meson 0.58 is fixed in stable releases.
Recommend the first version contain

doc: modernize build instructions on Windows

Meson 0.57 was an unstable version and is now outdated.
The referenced bug in Meson 0.58 is fixed in stable releases.
Recommend the first version containing the fix: 1.5.2.

Building DPDK applications that run on 32-bit Windows is
currently not supported. However, some Visual Studio environments
default to producing 32-bit binaries.
Recommend instructing the developer prompt to produce 64-bit binaries
when that is the case.

Signed-off-by: Andre Muezerie <andremue@linux.microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>

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doc: set required MinGW version in Windows guide

Some new patches were failing on the very old version of MinGW that
is being used by the CI system. But there was no required version
for MinGW liste

doc: set required MinGW version in Windows guide

Some new patches were failing on the very old version of MinGW that
is being used by the CI system. But there was no required version
for MinGW listed in the documentation, so add one.

The version is selected is the version available for Debian oldstable
(Bullseye) as listed on:
https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/

The 10.0 version was released in 4/4/2022,
The current upstream version 11.0.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>

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doc: update Windows build requirements with MSVC

Document the basic requirements for download
and add an option describing how to build with MSVC.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.micr

doc: update Windows build requirements with MSVC

Document the basic requirements for download
and add an option describing how to build with MSVC.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>

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doc: avoid meson deprecation in setup

The command "meson build" causes a deprecation warning with meson 0.64.0.

WARNING: Running the setup command as `meson [options]` instead of
`meson setup [

doc: avoid meson deprecation in setup

The command "meson build" causes a deprecation warning with meson 0.64.0.

WARNING: Running the setup command as `meson [options]` instead of
`meson setup [options]` is ambiguous and deprecated.

Therefore fix the examples in the documentation.

Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stanislaw Kardach <kda@semihalf.com>

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doc: discourage using Meson 0.58 on Windows

Meson 0.58 and above cannot build DPDK on Windows with clang.
Recommend the latest known working version
and warn about the issue and the affected version

doc: discourage using Meson 0.58 on Windows

Meson 0.58 and above cannot build DPDK on Windows with clang.
Recommend the latest known working version
and warn about the issue and the affected versions.

Suggested-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>

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doc: update minimum required Meson version for Windows

Meson with Windows clang generates incorrect linker flag
"--subsystem,console" instead of "/subsystem:console" which
will fail the DPDK build.

doc: update minimum required Meson version for Windows

Meson with Windows clang generates incorrect linker flag
"--subsystem,console" instead of "/subsystem:console" which
will fail the DPDK build. This is discovered at porting testpmd.

Meson 0.57.0 has the fix and should be used for DPDK Windows build.
Update the WindowsGSG DPDK Build document for the proper meson version.

Signed-off-by: Jie Zhou <jizh@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>

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build: update minimum required Meson version

Bump Meson required version to 0.49.2 which is chosen so as
to be provided by both redhat-8 and debian-10.

Update documentation and travis setup script

build: update minimum required Meson version

Bump Meson required version to 0.49.2 which is chosen so as
to be provided by both redhat-8 and debian-10.

Update documentation and travis setup script accordingly.

This fixes the following warning:
WARNING: Project targeting '>= 0.47.1' but tried to use feature introduced
in '0.48.0': console arg in custom_target

'console' argument is used within kernel/linux/kni/meson.build

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Ganne <gabriel.ganne@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>

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devtools: add Windows cross-build test with MinGW

The Meson cross file is renamed from meson_mingw.txt to cross-mingw,
and is added to test-meson-builds.sh.

The only example supported on Windows so

devtools: add Windows cross-build test with MinGW

The Meson cross file is renamed from meson_mingw.txt to cross-mingw,
and is added to test-meson-builds.sh.

The only example supported on Windows so far is "helloworld",
that's why the default list of examples is overridden.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

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doc: clarify compilation with MinGW-w64

Provide a more direct link for installer download and clarify thread
model choice during installation. As pthread is not a requirement,
remove notice about it

doc: clarify compilation with MinGW-w64

Provide a more direct link for installer download and clarify thread
model choice during installation. As pthread is not a requirement,
remove notice about its possible runtime dependency.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>

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doc: split build and run instructions in Windows guide

With memory management implemented for Windows, the guide for running
sample applications is going to be extended with hugepages and driver
set

doc: split build and run instructions in Windows guide

With memory management implemented for Windows, the guide for running
sample applications is going to be extended with hugepages and driver
setup. Move run instructions to a separate file to give space for
planned expansion.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>

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build: add cross-file for MinGW-w64

Add Meson configuration to cross-compile for Windows using MinGW-w64.
It may require adjustments in some cases, but at least it provides
the foundation.

Signed-o

build: add cross-file for MinGW-w64

Add Meson configuration to cross-compile for Windows using MinGW-w64.
It may require adjustments in some cases, but at least it provides
the foundation.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Tested-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>

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build: support MinGW-w64 with Meson

MinGW-w64 linker does not mimic MS linker options, so the build system
must differentiate between linkers on Windows. Use GNU linker options
with GCC and MS linke

build: support MinGW-w64 with Meson

MinGW-w64 linker does not mimic MS linker options, so the build system
must differentiate between linkers on Windows. Use GNU linker options
with GCC and MS linker options with Clang.

MinGW-w64 by default uses MSVCRT stdio, which does not comply to ANSI,
most notably its formatting and string handling functions. MinGW-w64
support for the Universal CRT (UCRT) is ongoing, but the toolchain
provides its own standard-complying implementation of stdio. The latter
is used in the patch to support formatting in DPDK.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Tested-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>

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doc: fix helloworld build on Windows

The option -Dexamples=helloworld is missing.
The helloworld binary name was wrong.
Forcing clang may be required in some environments.

Fixes: 196c650b8b63 ("doc

doc: fix helloworld build on Windows

The option -Dexamples=helloworld is missing.
The helloworld binary name was wrong.
Forcing clang may be required in some environments.

Fixes: 196c650b8b63 ("doc: add guide for Windows")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Adham Masarwah <adham@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

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doc: add guide for Windows

Added documentation to build helloworld example
on Windows using meson and clang.

Signed-off-by: Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anand Rawat <anand

doc: add guide for Windows

Added documentation to build helloworld example
on Windows using meson and clang.

Signed-off-by: Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anand Rawat <anand.rawat@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Shaw <jeffrey.b.shaw@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ranjit Menon <ranjit.menon@intel.com>
Tested-by: Harini Ramakrishnan <harini.ramakrishnan@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Harini Ramakrishnan <harini.ramakrishnan@microsoft.com>

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