On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 08:12:57AM +0200, Martin Segeth wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Lance Richardson <lrich...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > > From: "Ben Pfaff" <b...@ovn.org> > > > To: "Martin Segeth" <m.seg...@gmail.com> > > > Cc: dev@openvswitch.org > > > Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 3:52:05 PM > > > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Mac OS X? > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 09:44:50PM +0200, Martin Segeth wrote: > > > > I was trying to build OVS 2.5.0 on a Mac but get a few a errors. While > > > > researching on this topic I came across a previous thread on this dev > > > > mailing list where this was already discussed without having found a > > > > solution yet. > > > > > > > > Has anyone meanwhile managed to get it compiled on Mac OS X? If not, I > > > > guess it just does not work and would require some development work to > > get > > > > it ported, wouldn't it? > > > > > > I think that someone ported master to Mac OS. Try building that. > > > > Travis does OS X builds as part of OVS CI for the master and 2.6 branches. > > See https://travis-ci.org/openvswitch/ovs/builds for examples. The > > necessary > > development tools can be installed for OS X using "brew". > > > > The last time I tried, "make check" mostly passed for OS X, failures were > > generally in test cases using netdev-dummy. > > > > I managed to compile the master branch as suggested by Ben. The missing > development tools like autoconf and automake could indeed be installed with > brew. > > Though, I am unable to create a bridge interface. The userspace > installation readme says the datapath type is to be changed to netdev as > opposed to system and FreeBSD/NetBSD requires the tap driver built into the > kernel or loaded as a module.
I'm not sure whether the Mac OS port is a real working port or just enough to compile and run the unit tests. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
