On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 08:51:25AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 16:29:25 +0000 > "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> wrote: > > > On 07-Jan-19 4:15 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 07:51:38AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > >> On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 10:56:57 +0000 > > >> "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> wrote: > > >> > > >>> On 03-Jan-19 6:33 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > >>>> What about Gcc under the WSL thing (ie Linux emulation in Windows). > > >>>> Much better than Cygwin type stuff. > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>> WSL is dog-slow with any kind of disk I/O, at least currently, so while > > >>> i do use WSL to fool my IDE into thinking it's running on Linux, the > > >>> actual compilation user experience is horrible. > > >>> > > >> > > >> The newest version uses Hyper-V to run Linux kernel in VM and is better. > > >> Probably all still has issues with translation to NTFS. > > > > Yes, but it takes a while for "newest versions" to trickle down on our > > dev machines :) > > > > > > > > But is running that going to produce windows binaries rather than linux > > > ones? > > > > > > > I believe it's producing Linux binaries, not Windows ones. So probably a > > non-starter. > > > > It would produce Linux binaries. It should be possible to convince it to do > Windows binaries some how. Just hoping there was a way to build DPDK > with standard tools and not having to use cygwin.
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. /Bruce
