.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause Copyright(c) 2010-2015 Intel Corporation. .. _linux_gsg_compiling_dpdk: Compiling the DPDK Target from Source ===================================== Uncompress DPDK and Browse Sources ---------------------------------- First, uncompress the archive and move to the uncompressed DPDK source directory: .. code-block:: console tar xJf dpdk-.tar.xz cd dpdk- The DPDK is composed of several directories: * lib: Source code of DPDK libraries * drivers: Source code of DPDK poll-mode drivers * app: Source code of DPDK applications (automatic tests) * examples: Source code of DPDK application examples * config, buildtools: Framework-related scripts and configuration Compiling and Installing DPDK System-wide ----------------------------------------- DPDK can be configured, built and installed on your system using the tools ``meson`` and ``ninja``. DPDK Configuration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To configure a DPDK build use: .. code-block:: console meson build where "build" is the desired output build directory, and "" can be empty or one of a number of meson or DPDK-specific build options, described later in this section. The configuration process will finish with a summary of what DPDK libraries and drivers are to be built and installed, and for each item disabled, a reason why that is the case. This information can be used, for example, to identify any missing required packages for a driver. Once configured, to build and then install DPDK system-wide use: .. code-block:: console cd build ninja ninja install ldconfig The last two commands above generally need to be run as root, with the `ninja install` step copying the built objects to their final system-wide locations, and the last step causing the dynamic loader `ld.so` to update its cache to take account of the new objects. .. note:: On some linux distributions, such as Fedora or Redhat, paths in `/usr/local` are not in the default paths for the loader. Therefore, on these distributions, `/usr/local/lib` and `/usr/local/lib64` should be added to a file in `/etc/ld.so.conf.d/` before running `ldconfig`. .. _adjusting_build_options: Adjusting Build Options ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DPDK has a number of options that can be adjusted as part of the build configuration process. These options can be listed by running ``meson configure`` inside a configured build folder. Many of these options come from the "meson" tool itself and can be seen documented on the `Meson Website `_. For example, to change the build-type from the default, "debugoptimized", to a regular "debug" build, you can either: * pass ``-Dbuildtype=debug`` or ``--buildtype=debug`` to meson when configuring the build folder initially * run ``meson configure -Dbuildtype=debug`` inside the build folder after the initial meson run. Other options are specific to the DPDK project but can be adjusted similarly. To set the "max_lcores" value to 256, for example, you can either: * pass ``-Dmax_lcores=256`` to meson when configuring the build folder initially * run ``meson configure -Dmax_lcores=256`` inside the build folder after the initial meson run. Some of the DPDK sample applications in the `examples` directory can be automatically built as part of a meson build too. To do so, pass a comma-separated list of the examples to build to the `-Dexamples` meson option as below:: meson -Dexamples=l2fwd,l3fwd build As with other meson options, this can also be set post-initial-config using `meson configure` in the build directory. There is also a special value "all" to request that all example applications whose dependencies are met on the current system are built. When `-Dexamples=all` is set as a meson option, meson will check each example application to see if it can be built, and add all which can be built to the list of tasks in the ninja build configuration file. Building 32-bit DPDK on 64-bit Systems ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To build a 32-bit copy of DPDK on a 64-bit OS, the ``-m32`` flag should be passed to the compiler and linker to force the generation of 32-bit objects and binaries. This can be done either by setting ``CFLAGS`` and ``LDFLAGS`` in the environment, or by passing the value to meson using ``-Dc_args=-m32`` and ``-Dc_link_args=-m32``. For correctly identifying and using any dependency packages, the ``pkg-config`` tool must also be configured to look in the appropriate directory for .pc files for 32-bit libraries. This is done by setting ``PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR`` to the appropriate path. The following meson command can be used on RHEL/Fedora systems to configure a 32-bit build, assuming the relevant 32-bit development packages, such as a 32-bit libc, are installed:: PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/pkgconfig \ meson -Dc_args='-m32' -Dc_link_args='-m32' build For Debian/Ubuntu systems, the equivalent command is:: PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkgconfig \ meson -Dc_args='-m32' -Dc_link_args='-m32' build Once the build directory has been configured, DPDK can be compiled using ``ninja`` as described above. .. _building_app_using_installed_dpdk: Building Applications Using Installed DPDK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When installed system-wide, DPDK provides a pkg-config file ``libdpdk.pc`` for applications to query as part of their build. It's recommended that the pkg-config file be used, rather than hard-coding the parameters (cflags/ldflags) for DPDK into the application build process. An example of how to query and use the pkg-config file can be found in the ``Makefile`` of each of the example applications included with DPDK. A simplified example snippet is shown below, where the target binary name has been stored in the variable ``$(APP)`` and the sources for that build are stored in ``$(SRCS-y)``. .. code-block:: makefile PKGCONF = pkg-config CFLAGS += -O3 $(shell $(PKGCONF) --cflags libdpdk) LDFLAGS += $(shell $(PKGCONF) --libs libdpdk) $(APP): $(SRCS-y) Makefile $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(SRCS-y) -o $@ $(LDFLAGS) .. note:: Unlike with the make build system present in older DPDK releases, the meson system is not designed to be used directly from a build directory. Instead it is recommended that it be installed either system-wide or to a known location in the user's home directory. The install location can be set using the `--prefix` meson option (default: `/usr/local`). an equivalent build recipe for a simple DPDK application using meson as a build system is shown below: .. code-block:: python project('dpdk-app', 'c') dpdk = dependency('libdpdk') sources = files('main.c') executable('dpdk-app', sources, dependencies: dpdk)