Building VPP Commands

Set up Proxies

Depending on the environment, proxies may need to be set. You may run these commands:

$ export http_proxy=http://<proxy-server-name>.com:<port-number>
$ export https_proxy=https://<proxy-server-name>.com:<port-number>

Build VPP Dependencies

Before building, make sure there are no FD.io VPP or DPDK packages installed by entering the following commands:

dpkg -l | grep vpp
dpkg -l | grep DPDK

Run this to install the dependency packages for FD.io VPP. If it hangs during downloading at any point, make sure proxies were set first.

# make install-dep

*Output should look like this*
...
...

Update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/jmap to provide /usr/bin/jmap (jmap) in auto mode
Setting up default-jdk-headless (2:1.8-56ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu6) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for ca-certificates (20160104ubuntu1) ...
Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
0 added, 0 removed; done.
Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d...

done.
done.

Build VPP (Debug Mode)

This build version contains debug symbols which is useful to modify VPP. The command below will build debug version of VPP. This build will come with /build-root/vpp_debug-native.

# make build

You may ignore the following warning if encountered after running the make build command:

libtool: warning: remember to run 'libtool --finish /none'

Build VPP (Release Version)

To build release version of VPP. This is package is for those who will not be debugging in VPP. This build will come with /build-root/build-vpp-native

# make release

Building Debian Packages

After running the previous commands, it is still necessary to build the debian packages.

Execute one of the two commands below depending on the system:

For most operating systems (including Ubuntu)

# make pkg-deb

For CentOS

# make pkg-rpm

Note

Please follow the commands that the Operating System prompts, after running one of the commands above

The packages will be found in the build-root directory.

# ls *.deb

If packages built correctly, this should be the Output

vpp_18.07-rc0~456-gb361076_amd64.deb             vpp-dbg_18.07-rc0~456-gb361076_amd64.deb
vpp-api-java_18.07-rc0~456-gb361076_amd64.deb    vpp-dev_18.07-rc0~456-gb361076_amd64.deb
vpp-api-lua_18.07-rc0~456-gb361076_amd64.deb     vpp-lib_18.07-rc0~456-gb361076_amd64.deb
vpp-api-python_18.07-rc0~456-gb361076_amd64.deb  vpp-plugins_18.07-rc0~456-gb361076_amd64.deb

Packages built installed end up in build-root directory. Finally, the command below installs all built packages.

# dpkg -i *.deb