1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause 2 Copyright(c) 2019 Intel Corporation. 3 4Introduction 5============ 6 7This document contains instructions for installing and configuring the Data 8Plane Development Kit (DPDK) software. The document describes how to compile 9and run a DPDK application in a Windows* OS application environment, without 10going deeply into detail. 11 12\*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. 13 14Limitations 15=========== 16 17DPDK for Windows is currently a work in progress. Not all DPDK source files 18compile. Support is being added in pieces so as to limit the overall scope 19of any individual patch series. The goal is to be able to run any DPDK 20application natively on Windows. 21 22The :doc:`../contributing/abi_policy` does not apply to the Windows build, 23as function versioning is not supported on Windows, 24therefore minor ABI versions may be incompatible. 25