[Mesa-dev] dumb meson questions

[Dave Airlie]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 14:01, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> wrote:
>
>
> I guess I don't fully understand a few things about the new meson build.
>
> 1. I'm trying to build the gallium VMware driver with this:
>
> export BUILD_DIR=build-meson-dri
>
> mkdir "${BUILD_DIR}"
>
> meson -Dshared-llvm=false \
>           -Dplatforms=x11,drm \
>           -Dgallium-drivers=svga \
>           -Dvulkan-drivers= \
>           "${BUILD_DIR}"
>
> ninja -C "${BUILD_DIR}"
>
> When it's done, there is no vmwgfx_dri.so driver file. So libGL
> complains that it can't find the svga driver (nor swrast).  I must be
> missing something.

I don't think meson got the install in place stuff carried over, so I
think everyone does --prefix= somewhere
and that should create the vmwgfx_dri.so which will be a link to the
libgallium_dri.so you've found.

> 2. When the build completes I see that there's a libgallium_dri.so file
> that's HUGE:
>
> $ ls -l build-meson-dri/src/gallium/targets/dri/libgallium_dri.so
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 brianp users 726507584 Mar  5 20:47
> build-meson-dri/src/gallium/targets/dri/libgallium_dri.so*
>
>
> 726MB seems a bit excessive.  The libvdpau_gallium.so and
> libxatracker.so libraries are also about that size.  What's the story there?

meson build debug by default, I expect you've gotten a bunch of that.

Dave.