3 rrdbuild - Instructions for building RRDtool
9 If you downloaded the source of rrdtool you have to compile it. This
10 document will give some information on how this is done.
12 RRDtool relies on services of thrid part libraries. Some of these libraries
13 may already be installed on your system. You have to compile copies of the other
14 ones before you can build RRDtool.
16 This document will tell you about all the necessary steps to get going.
18 These instructions assume you are using a bash shell. If you use csh/tcsh,
19 then you can either type 'bash' to switch to bash for the compilation or if
20 you know what you are doing just replace replace the export bits with
23 We further assume that your copies of B<tar> and B<make> are actually B<GNU
24 tar> and B<GNU make> respectively. It could be that they are installed as
25 B<gtar> and B<gmake> on your system.
29 Before you start to build RRDtool, you have to decide two things:
35 In which directory you want to build the software.
39 Where you want to install the software.
43 Once you have decided. Save the two locations into environment variables.
44 Depending on the shell you are using, you can do either (bash,zsh):
46 BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
47 INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
51 set BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
52 set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
54 If your F</tmp> is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that) you have to choose
55 a different directory!
57 Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
62 Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
65 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300.tar.gz
66 gunzip -c rrdtool-1.2.99907080300.tar.gz | tar xf -
67 cd rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
68 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
70 Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
71 B<configure> complaining about several missing libraries. If you are on a
72 Linux or *bsd system you may want to just install the missing bits from your
73 software repository. When you do that, make sure you also get the B<-dev>
74 package for each library you install. Once you have the missing bits on
75 board, just re-run the last line of the instructions above.
77 But again this may have been too optimistic, and you actually have to
78 compile your own copies of some of the required libraries. Things like
79 libpng and zlib are pretty standard so you will probably have them on your
80 system anyway. Freetype, Fontinst, Cairo, Pango may be installed, but it is
81 possible that they are pretty old and thus don't live up to the
82 expectations, so you may want to compile their latest versions.
84 =head3 Build Tipps for AIX
86 If you are woking with AIX, you may find the the B<--disable-shared> option
87 will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
88 shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with B<--disable-static>
91 Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
93 export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
96 (Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
98 =head2 Building Libraries
100 In order to build the libraries you need a compiler on your system.
101 Unfortunately compilers are not all alike. This has an effect on the CFLAGS
102 you want to set. The examples below are for the popular GCC compiler suite.
103 If you have an other compile you have to use the following settings:
115 Some libraries want to know where other libraries are. For this to work,
116 set the following environamen variable
118 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${INSTALL_DIR}/lib/pkgconfig
119 export PATH=$INSTALL_DIR/bin:$PATH
121 Since we are compiling libraries dynamically, you they must further know
122 where to find each other. This is done by setting an appropriate LDFLAG.
123 Unfortunatly the syntax differs from system to system:
129 export LDFLAGS=-R${INSTALL_DIR}/lib
133 export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath -Wl,${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
137 export LDFLAGS="+b${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
141 export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-blibpath:${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
145 If you have GNUmake installed and it is not called 'make',
158 Chances are very high that you already have that on your system ...
161 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
162 gunzip -c zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
164 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
168 =item Building libpng
170 Libpng itself requires zlib to build, so we need to help a bit. If you
171 already have a copy of zlib on your system (which is very likley) you can
172 drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at
173 the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
176 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz
177 gunzip -c libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz | tar xf -
179 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
183 =item Building freetype
186 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
187 gunzip -c freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
189 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
191 $MAKE install (or gmake install)
193 If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want to try to
194 add the following at the start the configure line:
196 env GNUMAKE=gmake EGREP=egrep
198 =item Building fontconfig
200 Note that fontconfig has a runtime configuration file in INSTALL_DIR/etc you
201 may want to adjust that so that fontconfig finds the fonts on your system.
202 Run the fc-cache program to build the fontconfig cache after changeing the
206 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
207 gunzip -c fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
209 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
216 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz
217 gunzip -c cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz | tar xf -
219 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \
221 --enable-xlib-render=no \
230 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.12.13.tar.gz
231 gunzip -c glib-2.12.13.tar.gz | tar xf -
233 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
240 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.17.5.tar.gz
241 gunzip -c pango-1.17.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
243 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
249 Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. This time
250 you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and include
251 files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the shell you
252 are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is different.
254 CPPFLAGS=-I$INSTALL_DIR/include
255 LDFLAGS="-R$INSTALL_DIR/lib -L$INSTALL_DIR/lib"
257 export CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS CFLAGS
259 And finally try building again. We disable the python and tcl bindings
260 because it seems that a fair number of people have ill configured python and
261 tcl setups that would prevent rrdtool from building if they are included in
264 cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
265 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-tcl --disable-python
270 SOLARIS HINT: if you want to build the perl module for the native perl (the
271 one shipping with solaris) you will need the sun forte compiler installed on
272 your box or you have to hand-tune bindings/perl-shared/Makefile while
275 Now go to I<$INSTALL_DIR>B</share/rrdtool/examples/> and run them to see if
276 your build has been successful.
280 Tobias Oetiker E<lt>tobi@oetiker.chE<gt>