Installing DPDK Source Code

Prerequisites

The dependencies tar, Meson, Automake, libtool, openssl-devel, python3-pyelftools, and numactl-devel have been installed.

Procedure

1. Go to Index of /rel/, download the dpdk-23.11.tar.gz software package, and decompress the package to the local environment.

   tar -zxvf dpdk-23.11.tar.gz
   cd dpdk-23.11/

2. Set compilation parameters.

   meson --prefix=/usr -Ddisable_drivers=net/cnxk -Dc_args='-g -O0 -fstack-protector-strong' -Dmax_ethports=960 -Dc_link_args='-Wl,-z,relro,-z,now,-z,noexecstack' -Dplatform=generic build

3. Perform compilation and installation.

   ninja -C build && ninja install -C build

4. Query the DPDK version.

   pkg-config --modversion libdpdk

   The installation is successful if the following information is displayed:

   23.11.0