DPDK used for building programs and the one used to run the programs

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2023 14:47:47 +0100
Antonio Di Bacco <a.dibacco.ks at gmail.com> wrote:

> On the target machine I use to have a DPDK compiled after installing
> the Mellanox 5/6 drivers.
> I see that there are files related to MLX5 pmds in the target machine
> (include files).
> 
> To compile my programs I use a container where there is installed a
> DPDK that doesn't have the MLX5 support, I mean I don't find the
> rte_mlx5_pmds.h in the container.
> 
> Now, a program compiled in the container could have problems when
> using MLX5 on the target machine?
> 
> Thanks,
> Anna.

Header files are only used when compiling.
A possible issue is any shared libraries that MLX5 PMD is depending on not being
visible in the container.