[dpdk-dev] test: failed to clone dpdk source in windows

[Burt Silverman]

Oddly enough, it seems to work fine under cygwin. That should solve your
issue.

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 11:50 PM, linhaifeng <haifeng.lin at huawei.com> wrote:

> 在 2016/8/7 4:33, Jan Viktorin 写道:
> > On Fri, 05 Aug 2016 09:51:06 +0200
> > Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 2016-08-05 09:44, Thomas Monjalon:
> >>> 2016-08-05 10:09, linhaifeng:
> >>>> hi,thomas
> >>>>
> >>>> Could you change the name of file in directory
> app/test/test_pci_sysfs/bus/pci/devices/ ?
> >>>> I think somebody like us also cann't access internet in
> liunux.Windows not support file name
> >>>> include ':'.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am sorry for this situation but (as Thomas mentioned below) Windows is
> > not considered as a supported platform. If you have issues with this
> > approach you are welcome to prepare some patch changing this to do
> > the same thing in another way.
> >
> > There was a discussion when accepting the fake sysfs into DPDK on the
> > public mailing list. I did not received any serious complaints at that
> > time.
> >
> > Regards
> > Jan
> >
> >>>
> >>> Not sure to understand the use case.
> >>> This is a fake sysfs, we cannot change the names.
> >>
> >> In other words, Windows is not supported, neither for runtime
> >> nor for development.
> >> For information, which filesystem do not support ':'?
> >>
> >> If someone wants to add this support, the fake sysfs could have slightly
> >> different names and rightly renamed during compilation.
> >
>
> I just want to edit code in windows and compile in linux,so i want to
> clone it in windows,but
> it's not support.The message in win7 is :
> $ git clone http://dpdk.org/git/dpdk
> Cloning into 'dpdk'...
> remote: Counting objects: 51912, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10331/10331), done.
> rRemote: Total 51912 (delta 41342), reused 51808 (delta 41eceiving
> objects: 100%
>  (51271)912/519           MiB |
> Receiving objects: 100% (51912/51912), 25.99 MiB | 1.99 MiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (41342/41342), done.
> Checking connectivity... done.
> fatal: cannot create directory at 'app/test/test_pci_sysfs/bus/
> pci/devices/0000:
> 01:00.0': Invalid argument
> warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
> You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
> and retry the checkout with 'git checkout -f HEAD'
>
> If everyone edit codes in linux there is no need to fix it.
>
>
>