Re: [dpdk-users] pktgen-dpdk failed build "│/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llua'

[".." <hyperhead@gmail.com>]

Hi Keith,

Ok will upgrade to latest version.

Is there much documentation of creating custom payloads with dpdk-pktgen?

Have you any opinions on Warp17 from Juniper the dpdk stateful packet
generator?

Regards

Roland

On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 14:57, Wiles, Keith <keith.wiles@intel.com> wrote:

> Please update to the latest Pktgen, I believe I was able to fix the build
> system for CentOS.
>
> > On Apr 3, 2019, at 1:54 AM, .. <hyperhead@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi dpdk-users!
> >
> > OS: CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core)
> > Kernel : 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64
> >
> > I am trying to build dpdk-pktgen (I chose version 3.6.1 with dpdk 18.08).
> > Whenever I build I get this error:
> >
> > [root@ipservera pktgen-dpdk-pktgen-3.6.1]# make -j
> > == lib
> > == common
> > == utils
> > == vec
> > == lua
> > == cli
> > == app
> >  LD pktgen
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llua
> > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[2]: *** [pktgen] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> > make: *** [app] Error 2
> >
> > As it is Centos, I followed the instructions for building lua 5.3.2 via
> the
> > INSTALL.md notes with the pktgen install notes and also copied the
> > generated libraries as per documentation:
> >
> > # ls -l /usr/lib64/ | grep liblua
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root      193864 Nov  6  2016 liblua-5.1.so
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root root      442084 Apr  1 12:46 liblua-5.3.a
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root      260977 Apr  1 12:46 liblua-5.3.so
> > # lua -v
> > Lua 5.3.2  Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> >
> > # luac -v
> > Lua 5.3.2  Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> >
> > Dpdk install details:
> > ----------------------------
> > # echo $RTE_SDK
> > /usr/local/share/dpdk
> >
> > # echo $RTE_TARGET
> > x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
> >
> > # ls -l /usr/local/share/dpdk
> > total 24
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Aug  9  2018 buildtools
> > drwxr-xr-x 50 root root 4096 Aug  9  2018 examples
> > drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4096 Aug  9  2018 mk
> > drwxrwxr-x 14 root root 4096 Apr  3 06:39 pktgen-dpdk-pktgen-3.6.1
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Aug  9  2018 usertools
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Oct 10 18:25 x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
> >
> > I have never used pktgen -dpdk before against a dpdk application
> target.  I
> > have another dpdk server running a reflector application we developed,
> but
> > I used the standard Linux kernel pktgen and commercial software fpga nics
> > to fire traffic at it, but I would now like to try with pktgen-dpdk.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Roland
>
> Regards,
> Keith
>
>