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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/2] app/test_pmd: add tests for new API's
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2016-10-11 16:09, Ferruh Yigit:
> This will cause a compilation error for shared libraries. Because PMDs
> not linked against application when compiled as shared library but used
> as plugins.
> 
> Since it has been decided to have NIC specific APIs, we need to re-work
> that approach to fix shared library compilation.

If testpmd uses the ixgbe API, it must be linked with the PMD.
Is there any issue adapting the testpmd makefile?
Hope that dlopen an already linked PMD is nicely managed.