diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/meson.build b/lib/librte_eal/common/meson.build
index 68ce11222..6ad5d2fb1 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/meson.build
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/meson.build
@@ -5,8 +5,13 @@ eal_inc += include_directories('.', 'include',
 		join_paths('include/arch', arch_subdir))
 
 common_objs = []
-common_sources = []
-common_headers = []
+
+common_sources = files(
+		'eal_common_errno.c',
+		'eal_common_launch.c',
+		'eal_common_lcore.c',
+		'eal_common_log.c'
+	)
 if host_machine.system() != 'windows'
 	common_sources = files(
 		'eal_common_bus.c',
@@ -14,13 +19,9 @@ if host_machine.system() != 'windows'
 		'eal_common_class.c',
 		'eal_common_devargs.c',
 		'eal_common_dev.c',
-		'eal_common_errno.c',
 		'eal_common_fbarray.c',
 		'eal_common_hexdump.c',
 		'eal_common_hypervisor.c',
-		'eal_common_launch.c',
-		'eal_common_lcore.c',
-		'eal_common_log.c',
 		'eal_common_memalloc.c',
 		'eal_common_memory.c',
 		'eal_common_memzone.c',
@@ -47,7 +48,22 @@ endif
 eal_common_arch_sources = []
 eal_common_arch_objs = []
 
-common_headers += files('include/rte_common.h')
+common_headers = files(
+		'include/rte_branch_prediction.h',
+		'include/rte_bus.h',
+		'include/rte_common.h',
+		'include/rte_debug.h',
+		'include/rte_dev.h',
+		'include/rte_eal.h',
+		'include/rte_errno.h',
+		'include/rte_launch.h',
+		'include/rte_lcore.h',
+		'include/rte_log.h',
+		'include/rte_memory.h',
+		'include/rte_pci_dev_feature_defs.h',
+		'include/rte_per_lcore.h',
+		'include/rte_string_fns.h'
+	)
 if host_machine.system() != 'windows'
 	subdir(join_paths('arch', arch_subdir))
 	common_sources += eal_common_arch_sources
@@ -55,39 +71,26 @@ if host_machine.system() != 'windows'
 
 	common_headers += files(
 		'include/rte_alarm.h',
-		'include/rte_branch_prediction.h',
-		'include/rte_bus.h',
 		'include/rte_bitmap.h',
 		'include/rte_class.h',
 		'include/rte_compat.h',
-		'include/rte_debug.h',
 		'include/rte_devargs.h',
-		'include/rte_dev.h',
-		'include/rte_eal.h',
 		'include/rte_eal_memconfig.h',
 		'include/rte_eal_interrupts.h',
-		'include/rte_errno.h',
 		'include/rte_fbarray.h',
 		'include/rte_hexdump.h',
 		'include/rte_hypervisor.h',
 		'include/rte_interrupts.h',
 		'include/rte_keepalive.h',
-		'include/rte_launch.h',
-		'include/rte_lcore.h',
-		'include/rte_log.h',
 		'include/rte_malloc.h',
 		'include/rte_malloc_heap.h',
-		'include/rte_memory.h',
 		'include/rte_memzone.h',
 		'include/rte_option.h',
-		'include/rte_pci_dev_feature_defs.h',
 		'include/rte_pci_dev_features.h',
-		'include/rte_per_lcore.h',
 		'include/rte_random.h',
 		'include/rte_reciprocal.h',
 		'include/rte_service.h',
 		'include/rte_service_component.h',
-		'include/rte_string_fns.h',
 		'include/rte_tailq.h',
 		'include/rte_time.h',
 		'include/rte_uuid.h',
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal.c
index 134452a77..1c6923e20 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -2,10 +2,78 @@
  * Copyright(c) 2019 Intel Corporation
  */
 
-#include "rte_common.h"
+#include <io.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <rte_debug.h>
+#include <rte_eal.h>
+#include <rte_errno.h>
+#include <rte_lcore.h>
+#include <eal_thread.h>
+#include <eal_private.h>
+
+static struct rte_config rte_config;
+struct lcore_config lcore_config[RTE_MAX_LCORE];
+
+struct rte_config *
+rte_eal_get_configuration(void)
+{
+	return &rte_config;
+}
+
+static int
+sync_func(void *arg __rte_unused)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void
+rte_eal_init_alert(const char *msg)
+{
+	fprintf(stderr, "EAL: FATAL: %s\n", msg);
+	RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "%s\n", msg);
+}
 
 int
 rte_eal_init(int argc __rte_unused, char **argv __rte_unused)
 {
+	int i;
+
+	/* create a map of all processors in the system */
+	eal_create_cpu_map();
+
+	if (rte_eal_cpu_init() < 0) {
+		rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot detect lcores.");
+		rte_errno = ENOTSUP;
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	eal_thread_init_master(rte_config.master_lcore);
+
+	RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE(i) {
+
+		/*
+		 * create communication pipes between master thread
+		 * and children
+		 */
+		if (_pipe(lcore_config[i].pipe_master2slave,
+			sizeof(char), _O_BINARY) < 0)
+			rte_panic("Cannot create pipe\n");
+		if (_pipe(lcore_config[i].pipe_slave2master,
+			sizeof(char), _O_BINARY) < 0)
+			rte_panic("Cannot create pipe\n");
+
+		lcore_config[i].state = WAIT;
+
+		/* create a thread for each lcore */
+		if (eal_thread_create(&lcore_config[i].thread_id) != 0)
+			rte_panic("Cannot create thread\n");
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Launch a dummy function on all slave lcores, so that master lcore
+	 * knows they are all ready when this function returns.
+	 */
+	rte_eal_mp_remote_launch(sync_func, NULL, SKIP_MASTER);
+	rte_eal_mp_wait_lcore();
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal_debug.c b/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal_debug.c
index 868808ca9..72e5cb97e 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal_debug.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal_debug.c
@@ -2,10 +2,17 @@
  * Copyright(c) 2019 Intel Corporation
  */
 
-#include "rte_common.h"
+#include <stdarg.h>
+#include <rte_log.h>
 
 void
-__rte_panic(const char *funcname __rte_unused,
-			const char *format __rte_unused, ...)
+__rte_panic(const char *funcname, const char *format, ...)
 {
+	va_list ap;
+
+	rte_log(RTE_LOG_CRIT, RTE_LOGTYPE_EAL, "PANIC in %s():\n", funcname);
+	va_start(ap, format);
+	rte_vlog(RTE_LOG_CRIT, RTE_LOGTYPE_EAL, format, ap);
+	va_end(ap);
+	abort();
 }
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal_lcore.c b/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal_lcore.c
index 46418f38f..db9da6039 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal_lcore.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal_lcore.c
@@ -2,25 +2,89 @@
  * Copyright(c) 2019 Intel Corporation
  */
 
-#include "rte_common.h"
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <rte_windows.h>
 
- /* Get the cpu core id value */
-unsigned
-eal_cpu_core_id(unsigned lcore_id)
+/* global data structure that contains the CPU map */
+static struct _win_cpu_map {
+	unsigned numTotalProcessors;
+	unsigned numProcessorSockets;
+	unsigned numProcessorCores;
+	unsigned reserved;
+	struct _win_lcore_map {
+		uint8_t    socketid;
+		uint8_t    coreid;
+	} win_lcore_map[RTE_MAX_LCORE];
+} win_cpu_map = { 0 };
+
+
+void
+eal_create_cpu_map()
 {
-	return lcore_id;
+	win_cpu_map.numTotalProcessors =
+	GetActiveProcessorCount(ALL_PROCESSOR_GROUPS);
+
+	LOGICAL_PROCESSOR_RELATIONSHIP lprocRel;
+	DWORD  lprocInfoSize = 0;
+	BOOL bHyperThreadingEnabled = FALSE;
+
+	/* First get the processor package information */
+	lprocRel = RelationProcessorPackage;
+	/* Determine the size of buffer we need (pass NULL) */
+	GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx(lprocRel, NULL, &lprocInfoSize);
+	win_cpu_map.numProcessorSockets = lprocInfoSize / 48;
+
+	lprocInfoSize = 0;
+	/* Next get the processor core information */
+	lprocRel = RelationProcessorCore;
+	GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx(lprocRel, NULL, &lprocInfoSize);
+	win_cpu_map.numProcessorCores = lprocInfoSize / 48;
+
+	if (win_cpu_map.numTotalProcessors > win_cpu_map.numProcessorCores)
+		bHyperThreadingEnabled = TRUE;
+
+	/* Distribute the socket and core ids appropriately
+	 * across the logical cores. For now, split the cores
+	 * equally across the sockets - might need to revisit this later
+	 */
+	unsigned lcore = 0;
+	for (unsigned socket = 0; socket <
+			win_cpu_map.numProcessorSockets; ++socket) {
+		for (unsigned core = 0; core < (win_cpu_map.numProcessorCores /
+				win_cpu_map.numProcessorSockets); ++core) {
+			win_cpu_map.win_lcore_map[lcore]
+					.socketid = socket;
+			win_cpu_map.win_lcore_map[lcore]
+					.coreid = core;
+			lcore++;
+			if (bHyperThreadingEnabled) {
+				win_cpu_map.win_lcore_map[lcore]
+					.socketid = socket;
+				win_cpu_map.win_lcore_map[lcore]
+					.coreid = core;
+				lcore++;
+			}
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 /* Check if a cpu is present by the presence of the cpu information for it */
 int
-eal_cpu_detected(unsigned lcore_id __rte_unused)
+eal_cpu_detected(unsigned lcore_id)
 {
-	return 1;
+	return (lcore_id < win_cpu_map.numTotalProcessors);
 }
 
 /* Get CPU socket id (NUMA node) for a logical core */
 unsigned
-eal_cpu_socket_id(unsigned cpu_id __rte_unused)
+eal_cpu_socket_id(unsigned lcore_id)
+{
+	return win_cpu_map.win_lcore_map[lcore_id].socketid;
+}
+
+/* Get the cpu core id value */
+unsigned
+eal_cpu_core_id(unsigned lcore_id)
 {
-	return 0;
+	return win_cpu_map.win_lcore_map[lcore_id].coreid;
 }
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal_thread.c b/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal_thread.c
index 222bd8f4d..27fd00705 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal_thread.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/eal_thread.c
@@ -1,15 +1,152 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
- * Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation
+ * Copyright(c) 2019 Intel Corporation
  */
 
-#include <windows.h>
+#include <io.h>
+#include <rte_windows.h>
+#include <rte_atomic.h>
+#include <rte_debug.h>
+#include <rte_launch.h>
+#include <rte_lcore.h>
+#include <rte_per_lcore.h>
 
-#include "rte_common.h"
+#include "eal_thread.h"
 
-typedef uintptr_t eal_thread_t;
+RTE_DEFINE_PER_LCORE(unsigned, _lcore_id) = LCORE_ID_ANY;
+
+/*
+ * Send a message to a slave lcore identified by slave_id to call a
+ * function f with argument arg. Once the execution is done, the
+ * remote lcore switch in FINISHED state.
+ */
+int
+rte_eal_remote_launch(lcore_function_t *f, void *arg, unsigned slave_id)
+{
+	int n;
+	char c = 0;
+	int m2s = lcore_config[slave_id].pipe_master2slave[1];
+	int s2m = lcore_config[slave_id].pipe_slave2master[0];
+
+	if (lcore_config[slave_id].state != WAIT)
+		return -EBUSY;
+
+	lcore_config[slave_id].f = f;
+	lcore_config[slave_id].arg = arg;
+
+	/* send message */
+	n = 0;
+	while (n == 0 || (n < 0 && errno == EINTR))
+		n = _write(m2s, &c, 1);
+	if (n < 0)
+		rte_panic("cannot write on configuration pipe\n");
+
+	/* wait ack */
+	do {
+		n = _read(s2m, &c, 1);
+	} while (n < 0 && errno == EINTR);
+
+	if (n <= 0)
+		rte_panic("cannot read on configuration pipe\n");
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+void
+eal_thread_init_master(unsigned lcore_id)
+{
+	/* set the lcore ID in per-lcore memory area */
+	RTE_PER_LCORE(_lcore_id) = lcore_id;
+}
+
+static inline eal_thread_t
+eal_thread_self(void)
+{
+	return GetCurrentThreadId();
+}
+
+/* main loop of threads */
+void *
+eal_thread_loop(void *arg __rte_unused)
+{
+	char c;
+	int n, ret;
+	unsigned lcore_id;
+	eal_thread_t thread_id;
+	int m2s, s2m;
+	char cpuset[RTE_CPU_AFFINITY_STR_LEN];
+
+	thread_id = eal_thread_self();
+
+	/* retrieve our lcore_id from the configuration structure */
+	RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE(lcore_id) {
+		if (thread_id == lcore_config[lcore_id].thread_id)
+			break;
+	}
+	if (lcore_id == RTE_MAX_LCORE)
+		rte_panic("cannot retrieve lcore id\n");
+
+	m2s = lcore_config[lcore_id].pipe_master2slave[0];
+	s2m = lcore_config[lcore_id].pipe_slave2master[1];
+
+	/* set the lcore ID in per-lcore memory area */
+	RTE_PER_LCORE(_lcore_id) = lcore_id;
+
+	RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL, "lcore %u is ready (tid=%zx;cpuset=[%s])\n",
+		lcore_id, (uintptr_t)thread_id, cpuset);
+
+	/* read on our pipe to get commands */
+	while (1) {
+		void *fct_arg;
+
+		/* wait command */
+		do {
+			n = _read(m2s, &c, 1);
+		} while (n < 0 && errno == EINTR);
+
+		if (n <= 0)
+			rte_panic("cannot read on configuration pipe\n");
+
+		lcore_config[lcore_id].state = RUNNING;
+
+		/* send ack */
+		n = 0;
+		while (n == 0 || (n < 0 && errno == EINTR))
+			n = _write(s2m, &c, 1);
+		if (n < 0)
+			rte_panic("cannot write on configuration pipe\n");
+
+		if (lcore_config[lcore_id].f == NULL)
+			rte_panic("NULL function pointer\n");
+
+		/* call the function and store the return value */
+		fct_arg = lcore_config[lcore_id].arg;
+		ret = lcore_config[lcore_id].f(fct_arg);
+		lcore_config[lcore_id].ret = ret;
+		rte_wmb();
+
+		/* when a service core returns, it should go directly to WAIT
+		 * state, because the application will not lcore_wait() for it.
+		 */
+		if (lcore_config[lcore_id].core_role == ROLE_SERVICE)
+			lcore_config[lcore_id].state = WAIT;
+		else
+			lcore_config[lcore_id].state = FINISHED;
+	}
+}
 
 int
-eal_thread_create(eal_thread_t *thread __rte_unused)
+eal_thread_create(eal_thread_t *thread)
 {
+	HANDLE th;
+
+	th = CreateThread(NULL, 0, (LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)eal_thread_loop,
+						NULL, 0, (LPDWORD)thread);
+	if (!th)
+		return -1;
+
+	SetPriorityClass(GetCurrentProcess(), REALTIME_PRIORITY_CLASS);
+	SetThreadPriority(th, THREAD_PRIORITY_TIME_CRITICAL);
+
 	return 0;
 }
+
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/include/exec-env/regex.h b/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/include/exec-env/regex.h
index 5a167833f..482101b3c 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/include/exec-env/regex.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/include/exec-env/regex.h
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ extern "C" {
 #define REG_NOMATCH 1
 #define REG_ESPACE 12
 
+#include "rte_common.h"
+
 typedef void *regex_t;
 typedef void *regmatch_t;
 
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/include/exec-env/rte_windows.h b/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/include/exec-env/rte_windows.h
index 8e4dc72bb..b9831ee6f 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/include/exec-env/rte_windows.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/include/exec-env/rte_windows.h
@@ -9,13 +9,34 @@
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
+#include <windows.h>
+
 #define __extension__
 #define __thread __declspec(thread)
 
 #define strerror_r(a, b, c) strerror_s(b, c, a)
 
+#define strdup(str)	_strdup(str)
+
 typedef void *ssize_t;
 
+typedef uintptr_t eal_thread_t;
+
+/**
+ * Create a thread.
+ * This function is private to EAL.
+ *
+ * @param thread
+ *   The location to store the thread id if successful.
+ * @return
+ *   0 for success, -1 if the thread is not created.
+ */
+int
+eal_thread_create(eal_thread_t *thread);
+
+void
+eal_create_cpu_map();
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/meson.build b/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/meson.build
index 487055f80..10a8d034d 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/meson.build
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/winapp/eal/meson.build
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
 # Copyright(c) 2019 Intel Corporation
 
-eal_inc += include_directories('include/exec-env')
+eal_inc += include_directories('include','include/exec-env')
 install_subdir('include/exec-env', install_dir: get_option('includedir'))
 
 env_objs = []
 env_headers = []
-env_sources = files('eal.c',
-	'eal_debug.c',
+env_sources = files('eal_debug.c',
 	'eal_lcore.c',
 	'eal_thread.c',
+	'eal.c'
 )
\ No newline at end of file
