DPDK Mellanox mlx4 and mlx5

[Lombardo, Ed]

Hi Ali,
Sorry for getting back to you so late.  Was pulled away for other reasons.  
I found online a way to tell meson and ninja to point to libibverbs.  Now meson and ninja are passing.  

# Define the path where libibverbs.a is located
ibverbs_lib_dir = '/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/rdma-core-44.0/build/lib'
ibverbs_include_dir = '/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/rdma-core-44.0/build/include'

# Create an include directory object
inc = include_directories(ibverbs_include_dir)

# Declare a dependency for libibverbs, linking statically
ibverbs_dep = declare_dependency(
  link_args: ['-L' + ibverbs_lib_dir, '-libverbs'],
  include_directories: inc
  )
# End of libibverbs


Next, I copied the DPDK include and lib files to our application build VM.  I built our application and now I see different errors during linking.

lib/dpdk-2211.2/lib/librte_net_mlx4.a(net_mlx4_mlx4_glue.c.o):mlx4_glue.c:function mlx4_glue_dv_set_context_attr: error: undefined reference to 'mlx4dv_set_context_attr'
lib/dpdk-2211.2/lib/librte_net_mlx4.a(net_mlx4_mlx4_glue.c.o):mlx4_glue.c:function mlx4_glue_dv_init_obj: error: undefined reference to 'mlx4dv_init_obj'
lib/dpdk-2211.2/lib/librte_net_mlx4.a(net_mlx4_mlx4_glue.c.o):mlx4_glue.c:function mlx4_glue_dereg_mr: error: undefined reference to 'ibv_dereg_mr'
lib/dpdk-2211.2/lib/librte_net_mlx4.a(net_mlx4_mlx4_glue.c.o):mlx4_glue.c:function mlx4_glue_reg_mr: error: undefined reference to 'ibv_reg_mr_iova2'
...

Now I need to resolve these issue related to mlx4_glue.c
If I have all the DPDK static libraries copied to my application build VM why does it complain about mlx4_glue.c functions are undefined?

Thanks,
Ed

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From: Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com> 
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Subject: RE: DPDK Mellanox mlx4 and mlx5

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Hi Ed,

Maybe you didn't set PKG_CONFIG_PATH?
 
Also check "5.3.1.1. Upstream Dependencies" section in https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/platform/mlx5.html*linux-prerequisites__;Iw!!Nzg7nt7_!AH7GKBDInkMDmwIafll16znS2hljXIeeOXYcfSKp9pAbAiVd-b6QrnHL8J_3Zz1S5ZxZSiB8qo4s2MzmyYQ$  to build rdma-core statically.
 
Regards,
Ali