One build system to rule them all: the return of the meson скачать в хорошем качестве

One build system to rule them all: the return of the meson

Speakers: Sergey Madaminov (Stony Brook University), William Tu (VMWare, Inc.) As of now, OVS uses the autotools suite as its build system. Even though it is a powerful set of tools, it has few disadvantages. Autotools have a relatively steep learning curve, which can impede contributions. Furthermore, the generated Makefile is enormously large (over 7000 lines) and it hampers the ability to debug the build process whenever something goes wrong. Albeit working well on Linux, autotools suite has no native support for Windows and requires running it in the emulated shell such as MSYS2. Doing so introduces one more source of issues and slows down the build process. Last year, DPDK switched to the meson build system replacing previously used make. Following its steps, this year I started porting OVS to meson and submitted an RFC for thas work. Currently, OVS can be built on both Linux and Windows using meson and Clang compiler. In this talk, I’m going to discuss the advantages of using this newer build system and present the current progress of the work as well as touch base on the next steps to be done to fully replace the build system of the OVS.