Post-Installation Setup

In this article we cover the minimum recommended additional packages and extensions required to start developing with the PacketCord SDK (also called PacketCord.io network programming framework).

Ubuntu

Addition packages

Install the following packages related to C programming, debugging and code stylisation:

sudo apt install gcc
sudo apt install gdb
sudo apt install cmake
sudo apt install clang

Pull the latest commits

Navigate to the SDK directory and pull:

cd /home/ubuntu/packetcord/sdk/packetcord.io
git pull

Note: The repository has been cloned by the installer.

Build

Build the SDK using CMake:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. --fresh
make

For the examples requiring DPDK dataplane, re-run cmake with the following argument:

cmake -DENABLE_DPDK_DATAPLANE=ON .. --fresh

For the examples requiring XDP dataplane, re-run cmake with the following argument:

cmake -DENABLE_XDP_DATAPLANE=ON .. --fresh

You can now open the project inside the Network Builder IDE using

File --> Open Folder

Select the packetcord.io directory and click Open.

Additional extensions

Inside the Network Builder IDE, we need to install the following extensions:

vscode.git-base

eclipse-cdt.cdt-gdb-vscode

llvm-vs-code-extensions.vscode-clangd

ms-vscode.cmake-tools

vscode.cpp

vscode.git

As a result, your extensions panel should contain the following:

Open some of the example applications and verify that you have the proper syntax highlight and that you can navigate to declarations and definitions.