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

[Wiles, Keith]

Please update to the latest Pktgen, I believe I was able to fix the build system for CentOS.

> On Apr 3, 2019, at 1:54 AM, .. <hyperhead at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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

Regards,
Keith