Compile DPDK in static?

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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
build-system, networking

Research direction

Start by reproducing zeek -i dpdk::auto and inspect how the plugin configures DPDK linkage and loads the MLX5 driver. Determine whether static linking can avoid the reported shared-linkage and version error; done means the command initializes successfully with MLX5 without that failure.

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Description

Hi all!
Thanks for this superb plugin !
Would it be possible to link to DPDK statically. First, it's supposed to perform better, but then it would also fix some linking issues when using MLX5 driver.

zeek -i dpdk::auto
Found 1 queues
EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 32
EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 1
EAL: Auto-detected process type: PRIMARY
EAL: Detected shared linkage of DPDK
EAL: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmlx5.so.1: version `MLX5_OFED' not found (required by /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librte_common_mlx5.so.22)
EAL: FATAL: Cannot init plugins
EAL: Cannot init plugins
fatal error: Error with EAL initialization

Did you try mlx5 by any chance?

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