Assistance with DPDK on Windows

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Nov 5 11:25:43 CET 2025


05/11/2025 08:36, Dmitry Kozlyuk:
> Hi Thenveer,
> 
> 
> On 11/5/25 10:18, Thenveer Poolakkanni wrote:
> > 1. Is it possible to execute or use dpdk-devbind.py on Windows to 
> > verify the device binding status?
> 
> No. Please use Device Manager for now.
> 
> > 2. On Windows, the build generates .dll files (e.g., 
> > rte_net_driver.dll) instead of .so files (e.g., librte_net_driver.so 
> > in Linux). How can we use or execute these .dll files in the same way 
> > we use .so files when running DPDK applications?
> >
> The application must link the needed libraries and PMDs when building. 
> These files must be in PATH or in the working directory when running the 
> application. Loading additional PMDs with "-d" EAL option is not yet 
> implemented. If you have a custom PMD you have to build it as a part of 
> DPDK and link to your application.
> 
> 
> P. S. Questions like these belong to users at dpdk.org. Keeping in dev@ to 
> avoid breaking threads.

This question is probably showing a lack of documentation.
Please can we have this gap solved with a patch?




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