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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: Daniel Kan <dan-nm7580oGLDTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Any benefit of using DPDK's makefiles instead of using your own and linking against DPDK library
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:38:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201401141238.30056.thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8A452F53-AD44-4C3C-8AB0-AD3342206D46-nm7580oGLDTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Hello,

14/01/2014 08:02, Daniel Kan:
> I already have existing makefiles for my current application. I would like
> to integrate dpdk into the application.  ’m wondering if there is any
> benefit to use dpdk’s makefiles instead of using your own makefile and
> linking against the library (e.g. libintel_dpdk.a). Thanks.

DPDK makefiles have 2 benefits:
- provide a framework
- automatically set CFLAGS and LDFLAGS according to your configuration

If you don't need a framework, I think it's better to extract compilation 
flags with something like pkg-config.
	http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config
A patch for a such feature would be welcome :)

-- 
Thomas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-14 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-14  7:02 Any benefit of using DPDK's makefiles instead of using your own and linking against DPDK library Daniel Kan
     [not found] ` <8A452F53-AD44-4C3C-8AB0-AD3342206D46-nm7580oGLDTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-14 11:38   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
     [not found]     ` <201401141238.30056.thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-14 13:22       ` Venkatesan, Venky
     [not found]         ` <1FD9B82B8BF2CF418D9A1000154491D973FC5A42-P5GAC/sN6hlcIJlls4ac1rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-14 13:55           ` Thomas Monjalon
     [not found]             ` <201401141455.57994.thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-14 15:06               ` Hamid Ramazani
2014-01-14 20:40               ` Daniel Kan
     [not found]                 ` <BF63A365-B8BD-49CD-9DCE-09D7A47DED02-nm7580oGLDTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-16 14:02                   ` Olivier MATZ

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