From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1252E1B273 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2019 18:00:36 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: UNKNOWN X-Amp-Original-Verdict: FILE UNKNOWN X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 07 Jan 2019 09:00:26 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.56,451,1539673200"; d="scan'208";a="136073583" Received: from bricha3-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.237.221.54]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with SMTP; 07 Jan 2019 09:00:22 -0800 Received: by (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:00:22 +0000 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 17:00:22 +0000 From: Bruce Richardson To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: "Burakov, Anatoly" , 'Thomas Monjalon' , 'Jason Messer' , 'Harini Ramakrishnan' , 'Omar Cardona' , 'Ranjit Menon' , 'Mattias =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6nnblom'?= , 'Jeff Shaw' , dev@dpdk.org Message-ID: <20190107170021.GB23828@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <7824863.MkUOD0j12R@xps> <005401d4a32e$2f20f860$8d62e920$@networkplumber.org> <20190107075138.654e0be5@hermes.lan> <20190107161534.GA15532@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> <4ca4ff83-d226-12c4-913c-22737dfc5bb6@intel.com> <20190107085125.3e3adf05@hermes.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190107085125.3e3adf05@hermes.lan> Organization: Intel Research and Development Ireland Ltd. User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Compiler for Windows X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:00:37 -0000 On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 08:51:25AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 16:29:25 +0000 > "Burakov, Anatoly" wrote: > > > On 07-Jan-19 4:15 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 07:51:38AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > >> On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 10:56:57 +0000 > > >> "Burakov, Anatoly" wrote: > > >> > > >>> On 03-Jan-19 6:33 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > >>>> What about Gcc under the WSL thing (ie Linux emulation in Windows). > > >>>> Much better than Cygwin type stuff. > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>> WSL is dog-slow with any kind of disk I/O, at least currently, so while > > >>> i do use WSL to fool my IDE into thinking it's running on Linux, the > > >>> actual compilation user experience is horrible. > > >>> > > >> > > >> The newest version uses Hyper-V to run Linux kernel in VM and is better. > > >> Probably all still has issues with translation to NTFS. > > > > Yes, but it takes a while for "newest versions" to trickle down on our > > dev machines :) > > > > > > > > But is running that going to produce windows binaries rather than linux > > > ones? > > > > > > > I believe it's producing Linux binaries, not Windows ones. So probably a > > non-starter. > > > > It would produce Linux binaries. It should be possible to convince it to do > Windows binaries some how. Just hoping there was a way to build DPDK > with standard tools and not having to use cygwin. I think for windows we probably want to start with the MS compiler first, since from my understanding it's probably the default go-to compiler for developers on windows, and look at alternatives from there. /Bruce