[dpdk-dev] Compiler for Windows

[Burakov, Anatoly]

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.burakov at 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.

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Thanks,
Anatoly