Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] MinGW-w64 support

[William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>]

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for your reply.

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 2:24 AM Dmitry Kozliuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi William,
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>> I applied your v2 patch and I did a native build on windows 10.
>> Hit an error showing
>> ../lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/eal_lcore.c:54:2: error: 'for' loop
>> initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode
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> Thanks, will fix in v3.
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>> However the output looks weird:
>> C:\dpdk\build\examples>dpdk-helloworld.exe
>> EAL: Detected 2 lcore(s)
>> EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes
>> hehello fllo frorom cm core 1
>> ore 0
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> It looks like your stdout is unbuffered (default is line-buffered). What terminal are you using (cmd, Power Shell, Terminal App, conemu, etc)?
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I'm using the "Command Prompt" from windows 10

>> C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 4.8.3 "cc (GCC) 4.8.3")
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> GCC 4.8.3 is quite outdated, MinGW-w64 ships GCC 8 nowadays. Do we need to support it for Windows (I doubt MinGW-w64 does)?
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Oh, I download a pretty old version (mingw-w64 3.3.0).
Let me update.

BTW, I also tested cross-compile using my Ubuntu Box and everything works!
William