Compling and Running a Sample Helloworld Program

Inside the dpdk-19.08 directory

cd examples/helloworld/

Set Points to the DPDK installation directory.

export RTE_SDK=$HOME/dpdk-19.08 
export RTE_TARGET=x86_64-native-linux-gcc

if you have installed dpdk somewhere other than the home directory then

export RTE_SDK=$HOME/path/dpdk-19.08

ls build/app

Running an Application

export RTE_SDK=$HOME/dpdk-19.08 
export RTE_TARGET=x86_64-native-linux-gcc
make
sudo su 

if you are getting error cannot init EAL then you require to setup hugepages . If no error run the sample program.

Setup Hugepages

sudo echo 64 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages

Run the helloworld program

cd dpdk-19.08/example/helloworld
sudo ./build/helloworld -l 0-3 -n 4