If DPDK is built as a shared library, then any application linked with rte.app.mk will not find any buses (including PCI devices).
This is because the linker will not call the initializers of the bus libraries since they are not directly called by application or EAL. Bugzilla ID: 333 Fixes: c752998b5e2e ("pci: introduce library and driver") Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> --- mk/rte.app.mk | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/mk/rte.app.mk b/mk/rte.app.mk index a277c808ed8e..3b3156bfcf09 100644 --- a/mk/rte.app.mk +++ b/mk/rte.app.mk @@ -123,6 +123,10 @@ ifneq (,$(findstring y,$(MVEP-y))) _LDLIBS-y += -lrte_common_mvep -L$(LIBMUSDK_PATH)/lib -lmusdk endif +# Bus devices use constructors to register and therefore +# need to be always linked in (--whole-archive already enabled) +_LDLIBS-y += --no-as-needed + ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA_BUS),y) _LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_COMMON_DPAAX) += -lrte_common_dpaax endif @@ -137,6 +141,9 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_EAL_VFIO),y) _LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_FSLMC_BUS) += -lrte_bus_fslmc endif +# drivers are as-needed +_LDLIBS-y += --as-needed + ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB),n) # plugins (link only if static libraries) -- 2.20.1