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.
