Add a required version for mingw. The version is selected is the version available for Debian oldstable (Bullseye) as listed on: https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/
The 10.0 version was released in 4/4/2022, The current upstream version 11.0. Also drop note about Ubuntu 16.04 because that release is EOL and the if using a current version of Ubuntu, the package will not be a problem. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> --- doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst index 1b6d3a650a49..708875c16f8e 100644 --- a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst +++ b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/build_dpdk.rst @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Building the DPDK and its applications requires one of the following environments: * LLVM 14.0.0 (or later) and Microsoft MSVC linker. -* The MinGW-w64 toolchain (either native or cross). +* The MinGW-w64 10.0 (or later) toolchain (either native or cross). * Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (any edition). - note Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 does not currently build enough @@ -49,10 +49,6 @@ and ensure the Windows SDK is selected. Option 2. MinGW-w64 Toolchain ----------------------------- -On Linux, i.e. for cross-compilation, install MinGW-w64 via a package manager. -Version 4.0.4 for Ubuntu 16.04 cannot be used due to a -`MinGW-w64 bug <https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/bugs/562/>`_. - On Windows, obtain the latest version installer from `MinGW-w64 repository <https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/>`_. Any thread model (POSIX or Win32) can be chosen, DPDK does not rely on it. -- 2.43.0
