[v3,0/8] HelloWorld example for windows

  Includes Windows-specific EAL changes and meson changes
to build the code on windows. 
v2 Changes:
Incorporated reviews from v1.
Fixed license period for updated files.
Renamed 'winapp' folder to 'windows'.
Cleaned unneeded meson changes.
Fixed code style warnings. 
Added maintainers information for windows branch

v3 Changes:
Separated meson workarounds from the essential code changes
Added support for kvargs
Updated meson for building DLL on windows using DEF files
Fixed documentation for html links and linker dependency
Added comments for windows header and source files

notes:
*patch 8/8 contains meson workarounds to build helloworld
on windows, which will later be a part of the draft repository

*command-line parsing is not a part of this version as a result
lcore mask is currently not supported.

Anand Rawat (8):
  eal: eal stub to add windows support
  eal: add header files to support windows
  kvargs: adding a module definition file
  eal: sys/queue.h implementation for windows
  eal: add headers for compatibility with windows environment
  eal: add minimum viable code for eal on windows
  doc: add documention for windows
  build: meson changes to build on windows

 MAINTAINERS                                   |   7 +
 config/meson.build                            |  23 +-
 config/x86/meson.build                        |  14 +-
 doc/guides/index.rst                          |   3 +-
 doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst         |  73 ++++
 doc/guides/windows_gsg/index.rst              |  14 +
 doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst              |  20 ++
 examples/meson.build                          |   6 +-
 lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h    |   7 +-
 .../common/include/rte_string_fns.h           |   4 +-
 lib/librte_eal/common/meson.build             | 159 +++++----
 lib/librte_eal/meson.build                    |   6 +-
 lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_exports.def            |   2 +
 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/eal.c              |  84 +++++
 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/eal_debug.c        |  19 ++
 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/eal_lcore.c        | 100 ++++++
 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/eal_thread.c       | 153 +++++++++
 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/fnmatch.h  |  43 +++
 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/pthread.h  |  22 ++
 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/regex.h    |  85 +++++
 .../windows/eal/include/rte_windows.h         |  50 +++
 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/sched.h    |  41 +++
 .../windows/eal/include/sys/queue.h           | 320 ++++++++++++++++++
 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/unistd.h   |   8 +
 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/meson.build        |  12 +
 lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs_exports.def      |   7 +
 lib/meson.build                               |  23 +-
 meson.build                                   |  34 +-
 28 files changed, 1230 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst
 create mode 100644 doc/guides/windows_gsg/index.rst
 create mode 100644 doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_exports.def
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/eal.c
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/eal_debug.c
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/eal_lcore.c
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/eal_thread.c
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/fnmatch.h
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/pthread.h
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/regex.h
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/rte_windows.h
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/sched.h
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/sys/queue.h
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/unistd.h
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/meson.build
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs_exports.def