In a previous commit, support had been added to support building
the kernel datapath from command line. In this patch, we document
it.
---
INSTALL.Windows.md | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL.Windows.md b/INSTALL.Windows.md
index 138d1bb..0882501 100644
--- a/INSTALL.Windows.md
+++ b/INSTALL.Windows.md
@@ -96,15 +96,29 @@ For example,
* Run make for the ported executables.
-Building the Kernel module
---------------------------
-We directly use the Visual Studio 2013 IDE to compile the kernel module. You
can
-open the extensions.sln file in the IDE and build the solution.
+Building the Kernel datapath module
+-----------------------------------
+* We directly use the Visual Studio 2013 IDE to compile the kernel datapath.
+You can open the extensions.sln file in the IDE and build the solution.
+
+* The kernel datapath can be compiled from command line as well. The top
+level 'make' will invoke building the kernel datapath, if the
+'--with-vstudioddk' argument is specified while configuring the package.
+For example,
+
+ % ./configure CC=./build-aux/cccl LD="`which link`" LIBS="-lws2_32" \
+ --prefix="C:/openvswitch/usr" --localstatedir="C:/openvswitch/var" \
+ --sysconfdir="C:/openvswitch/etc" --with-pthread="C:/pthread" \
+ --enable-ssl --with-openssl="C:/OpenSSL-Win32" \
+ --with-vstudioddk="<WDK to use>"
+
+ Possible values for "<WDK to use>" are:
+ "Win8.1 Debug", "Win8.1 Release", "Win8 Debug" and "Win8 Release".
Installing the Kernel module
----------------------------
Once you have built the solution, you can copy the following files to the
-target Hyper-V machines:
+target Hyper-V machines.
./datapath-windows/x64/Win8.1Debug/package/ovsext.inf
./datapath-windows/x64/Win8.1Debug/package/OVSExt.sys
@@ -112,6 +126,10 @@ target Hyper-V machines:
./datapath-windows/misc/install.cmd
./datapath-windows/misc/uninstall.cmd
+The above path assumes that the kernel module has been built using Windows
+DDK 8.1 in Debug mode. Change the path appropriately, if a different WDK
+has been used.
+
Steps to install the module
---------------------------
--
1.7.4.1
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