[dpdk-users] pktgen-dpdk failed build "│/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llua'

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Hi dpdk-users!

OS: CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core)
Kernel : 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64

 I am trying to build dpdk-pktgen (I chose version 3.6.1 with dpdk 18.08).
Whenever I build I get this error:

[root at ipservera pktgen-dpdk-pktgen-3.6.1]# make -j
== lib
== common
== utils
== vec
== lua
== cli
== app
  LD pktgen
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llua
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [pktgen] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [app] Error 2

As it is Centos, I followed the instructions for building lua 5.3.2 via the
INSTALL.md notes with the pktgen install notes and also copied the
generated libraries as per documentation:

# ls -l /usr/lib64/ | grep liblua
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root      193864 Nov  6  2016 liblua-5.1.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root root      442084 Apr  1 12:46 liblua-5.3.a
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root      260977 Apr  1 12:46 liblua-5.3.so
# lua -v
Lua 5.3.2  Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

# luac -v
Lua 5.3.2  Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

Dpdk install details:
----------------------------
# echo $RTE_SDK
/usr/local/share/dpdk

# echo $RTE_TARGET
x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc

# ls -l /usr/local/share/dpdk
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Aug  9  2018 buildtools
drwxr-xr-x 50 root root 4096 Aug  9  2018 examples
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4096 Aug  9  2018 mk
drwxrwxr-x 14 root root 4096 Apr  3 06:39 pktgen-dpdk-pktgen-3.6.1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Aug  9  2018 usertools
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Oct 10 18:25 x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc

I have never used pktgen -dpdk before against a dpdk application target.  I
have another dpdk server running a reflector application we developed, but
I used the standard Linux kernel pktgen and commercial software fpga nics
to fire traffic at it, but I would now like to try with pktgen-dpdk.

Thanks

Roland