> -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Hall [mailto:mhall at mhcomputing.net] > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 7:42 PM > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 03:20:40PM +0000, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio wrote: > > > You are not forced to use shared libraries. This module loads > > successfully with an app (testpmd) built against static DPDK libs. > > It sounds like it just requires additional options as mentioned later in your > mail. We should document the recommended set of link flags for static and > dynamic link w/ DPDK for apps, as it seems to cause issues for everybody > making non-example DPDK apps. I've seen several threads about it since > joining the mailing list a few months back. Maybe it is documented already > but I didn't see it. I'm willing to write it up but somebody will have to help > verify I got it right. > In this regard, I would be shortly posting an RFC on ways I think we can improve the current build system, which would also impact how apps are built.
> So... back to the Supported NICs page. Right not it claims VirtualBox is > supported but 2 people have seen that it doesn't work at all with either > driver. Is it intended to be supported configuration or not? > > If it is intended to be supported can we find someone who can help us fix the > bugs? It's not code I know much about. If it is not intended to work on VBox > can we delete it from the documentation so nobody besides me and you and > the other guy in 2013 waste more time trying to use it if it wasn't supposed > to > work in the first place? > I am aware of QEMU/KVM, VMware and Xen being supported/tested, so probably the documentation should be updated accordingly. > > Your undefined symbol error is most likely because the symbol is not > > in the dynamic symbol table of you app. You need to pass -rdynamic to > > GCC or -export-dynamic to LD when building your app. > > Good advice. I'll try it and see. Of course it won't fix the infinite loop > though > so the driver still won't help much even with the change present. > It certainly won't fix the loop problem :) Thanks, Sergio
