2021-02-25 16:33, Bruce Richardson: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 07:04:38PM +0300, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote: > > 2021-02-25 15:02, Ferruh Yigit: > > > On 2/14/2021 2:16 AM, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote: > > > > WinPcap or Npcap, can be installed anywhere. > > > > Add a Meson option to specify SDK path. > > > > > > > > > > I am not sure if it is OK to add a meson option for this, can't we use > > > the > > > default path? > > > > > > And does this mean we will need to add an option for each dependent > > > library in > > > Windows? If not, why pcap is special? > > > > There are some meson options for SDK paths already. Are they exceptions? > > > Right now, yes, they are exceptions, but there is work underway to remove > them and just replace them with use of pkg-config. Is there some automatic > path discovery mechanism on windows, similar to pkg-config, that can be > used rather than having to add explicit dependency paths?
pkg-config itself works on Windows if installed and given a PKG_CONFIG_PATH. Npcap doesn't provide a .pc file, despite libpcap commit 4f6b2b99 having it. Another quirk is that library is named libpcap.a/wpcap.lib on Unix/Windows. I can just handle the name difference and assume it's in the search path.
