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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] building shared library
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 03:22:40PM +0100, Newman Poborsky wrote:
> is it possible to build a  dpdk app as a shared library?

Yes it will work, with a bit of performance loss from the .so symbol lookup 
overhead. You have to set some of the build config options to get it to work 
though.

Matthew.