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From: Matthew Hall <mhall-Hv3ogNYU3JfZZajBQzqCxQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: building shared library
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:01:18 -0800
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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.