1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause 2 Copyright(c) 2015 Intel Corporation. 3 4Compiling the Sample Applications 5================================= 6 7This section explains how to compile the DPDK sample applications. 8 9To compile all the sample applications 10-------------------------------------- 11 12 13Set the path to DPDK source code if its not set: 14 15 .. code-block:: console 16 17 export RTE_SDK=/path/to/rte_sdk 18 19Go to DPDK source: 20 21 .. code-block:: console 22 23 cd $RTE_SDK 24 25Build DPDK: 26 27 .. code-block:: console 28 29 make defconfig 30 make 31 32Build the sample applications: 33 34 .. code-block:: console 35 36 export RTE_TARGET=build 37 make -C examples 38 39For other possible ``RTE_TARGET`` values and additional information on 40compiling see 41:ref:`Compiling DPDK on Linux <linux_gsg_compiling_dpdk>` or 42:ref:`Compiling DPDK on FreeBSD <building_from_source>`. 43Applications are output to: ``$RTE_SDK/examples/app-dir/build`` or 44``$RTE_SDK/examples/app-dir/$RTE_TARGET``. 45 46 47In the example above the compiled application is written to the ``build`` subdirectory. 48To have the applications written to a different location, 49the ``O=/path/to/build/directory`` option may be specified in the make command. 50 51 .. code-block:: console 52 53 make O=/tmp 54 55To build the applications for debugging use the ``DEBUG`` option. 56This option adds some extra flags, disables compiler optimizations and 57sets verbose output. 58 59 .. code-block:: console 60 61 make DEBUG=1 62 63 64To compile a single application 65------------------------------- 66 67Set the path to DPDK source code: 68 69 .. code-block:: console 70 71 export RTE_SDK=/path/to/rte_sdk 72 73Go to DPDK source: 74 75 .. code-block:: console 76 77 cd $RTE_SDK 78 79Build DPDK: 80 81 .. code-block:: console 82 83 make defconfig 84 make 85 86Go to the sample application directory. Unless otherwise specified the sample 87applications are located in ``$RTE_SDK/examples/``. 88 89 90Build the application: 91 92 .. code-block:: console 93 94 export RTE_TARGET=build 95 make 96