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From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Lu, Patrick" <patrick.lu@intel.com>
Cc: "Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: How to include pre-build object file (.o) in DPDK makefile?
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 07:38:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160919113812.GA30452@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EFC7DD9FAC418F4683FA895DBD8B35A30FA7423B@fmsmsx101.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 06:30:10PM +0000, Lu, Patrick wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yigit, Ferruh 
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 11:05 AM
> To: Lu, Patrick <patrick.lu@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] How to include pre-build object file (.o) in DPDK makefile?
> 
> On 9/16/2016 6:04 PM, Lu, Patrick wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to include some hand written assembly (compiled by yasm) in my DPDK program. I couldn't find any example linking the DPDK C code with pre-compiled .o file. I've searched the mk/ and found OBJS-y seems the right variable to include .o file, but when generating the final executable, OBJS-y contains only main.o (generating from main.c).
> > 
> > I've tried to put my .o file in both source directory as well as 
> > build/
> > 
> 
> Possible to use EXTRA_LDLIBS to provide the object file name, and put object file into build folder.
> 
> Following example worked for me:
> 
> $ nm foo.o
> 0000000000000000 T foo
> 
> $ cp foo.o examples/skeleton/build/
> 
> $ make -C examples/skeleton EXTRA_LDLIBS="foo.o"
> make: Entering directory '.../examples/skeleton'
>   CC basicfwd.o
>   LD basicfwd
>   INSTALL-APP basicfwd
>   INSTALL-MAP basicfwd.map
> make: Leaving directory '.../examples/skeleton'
> 
> $ nm examples/skeleton/build/basicfwd | grep foo 000000000055fd1d T foo
> 
> Perfect! This works for me.
> 
Just out of curiosity, why not just specify the source file in SRCS-y for your
target binary?  rte.pre-compile.mk has an assembly target for .S->.o
transitions.

Neil

> Sincerely,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-19 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-16 17:04 How to include pre-build object file (.o) in DPDK makefile? Lu, Patrick
2016-09-16 18:05 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-09-16 18:30   ` Lu, Patrick
2016-09-19 11:38     ` Neil Horman [this message]

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