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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 18:08:28 +0100
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07/01/2019 18:00, Bruce Richardson:
> 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. 

Not sure. I feel clang is a better option.
This is the purpose of this thread: which compiler can work
with the DPDK code base? Which modifications of code are acceptable?

Unfortunately we lost my original attempt of getting some facts.