=head2 Building
+Before you start to build RRDtool, you have to decide two things:
+
+=over
+
+=item 1.
+
+In which directory you want to build the software.
+
+=item 2.
+
+Where you want to install the software.
+
+=back
+
+Once you have decided. Save the two locations into environment variables.
+Depending on the shell you are using, you can do either (bash,zsh):
+
+ BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
+ INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
+
+Or if you run tcsh:
+
+ set BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
+ set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
+
+If your F</tmp> is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that) you have to choose
+a different directory!
+
+Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
+
+ mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR
+ cd $BUILD_DIR
+
Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
-per-installed. Note that these instructions assume that your copies of
+pre-installed. Note that these instructions assume that your copies of
B<tar> and B<make> are actually B<GNU tar> and B<GNU make> respectively. It
could be that they are installed as B<gtar> and B<gmake> on your system.
- wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.2.3
- tar zxf rrdtool-1.2.3
- cd rrdtool-1.2.3
- ./configure --prefix=/path/to/installation && make && make install
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300.tar.gz
+ tar zxf rrdtool-1.2.99907080300.tar.gz
+ cd rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
+ ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
B<configure> complaining about several missing libraries. If you are on a
board, just re-run the last line of the instructions above.
But again this may have been too optimistic, and you actually have to
-compile your own copies of the required libraries. Here is how:
+compile your own copies of the required libraries.
+
+=head3 Build Tipps for AIX
+
+If you are woking with AIX, you may find the the B<--disable-shared> option
+will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
+shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with B<--disable-static>
+instead.
+
+Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
+
+ export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
+ export PERLCC=$CC
+
+(Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
+
+=head2 Building Libraries
+
+In order to build the libraries you need a compiler on your system.
+Unfortunately compilers are not all alike. This has an effect on the CFLAGS
+you want to set. The examples below are for the popular GCC compiler suite.
+If you have an other compile you have to use the following settings:
=over
-=item Building cgilib
+=item Sun Forte
+
+ CFLAGS="-xO3 -kPIC"
+
+=back
+
+=over
- wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/cgilib-0.5.tar.gz
- tar zxf cgilib-0.5.tar.gz
- cd cgilib-0.5
- make CC=gcc CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC -I."
- mkdir -p ../lb/include
- cp *.h ../lb/include
- mkdir -p ../lb/lib
- cp libcgi* ../lb/lib
- cd ..
+Some libraries want to know where other libraries are. For this to work,
+set the following environamen variable
+
+ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${INSTALLDIR}/lib/pkgconfig
+
+or in tcsh
+
+ setenv PKG_CONFIG_PATH ${INSTALLDIR}/lib/pkgconfig
=item Building zlib
- wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.2.tar.gz
- tar zxf zlib-1.2.2.tar.gz
- cd zlib-1.2.2
- env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/../lb
- make
+Chances are very high that you already have that on your system ...
+
+ cd $BUILD_DIR
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
+ tar zxf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
+ cd zlib-1.2.3
+ env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
+ make
make install
- cd ..
=item Building libpng
drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at
the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
- wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz
- tar zxvf libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz
- cd libpng-1.2.8-config
- env CPPFLAGS="-I../lb/include" LDFLAGS="-L../lb/lib" CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
- ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=`pwd`/../lb
+ cd $BUILD_DIR
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz
+ tar zxvf libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz
+ cd libpng-1.2.10
+ env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
make
make install
- cd ..
=item Building freetype
- wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.1.9.tar.gz
- tar zxvf freetype-2.1.9.tar.gz
- cd freetype-2.1.9
- env CPPFLAGS="-I../lb/include" LDFLAGS="-L../lb/lib" CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
- ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=`pwd`/../lb
+ cd $BUILD_DIR
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
+ tar zxvf freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
+ cd freetype-2.3.5
+ env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
+ ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
+ make
+ make install
+
+If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want to try to
+add the following at the end of the configure line:
+
+ GNUMAKE=gmake EGREP=egrep
+
+=item Building fontconfig
+
+Note that fontconfig has a runtime configuration file in INSTALL_DIR/etc you
+may want to adjust that so that fontconfig finds the fonts on your system.
+Run the fc-cache program to build the fontconfig cache after changeing the
+config file.
+
+ cd $BUILD_DIR
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
+ tar zxvf fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
+ cd fontconfig-2.4.2
+ env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
+ make
make install
- cd ..
-=item Building libart_lgpl
+=item Building Cairo
- wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.17.tar.gz
- cd libart_lgpl-2.3.17
- env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=`pwd`/../lb
+ cd $BUILD_DIR
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz
+ tar zxvf cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz
+ cd cairo-1.4.10
+ env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \
+ --enable-xlib=no \
+ --enable-xlib-render=no \
+ --enable-win32=no
+ make
+ make install
+
+=item Building Glib
+
+ cd $BUILD_DIR
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.12.13.tar.gz
+ tar zxvf glib-2.12.13.tar.gz
+ cd glib-2.12.13
+ env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
+ make
+ make install
+
+=item Building Pango
+
+ cd $BUILD_DIR
+ wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.17.5.tar.gz
+ tar zxvf pango-1.17.5.tar.gz
+ cd pango-1.17.5
+ env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
+ make
make install
- cd ..
=back
Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. This time
you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and include
-files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the shellyou are running, the syntax for setting
-environment variables is different. Under csh/tcsh you use:
+files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the shell you
+are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is different.
+Under csh/tcsh you use:
- set IR=-I`pwd`/lb/include
- setenv CPPFLAGS "$IR $IR/libart-2.0 $IR/freetype2 $IR/libpng"
- setenv LDFLAGS -L`pwd`/lb/lib
+ setenv CPPFLAGS -I$INSTALL_DIR/include
+ setenv LDFLAGS "-L$INSTALL_DIR/lib -R$INSTALL_DIR/lib"
setenv CFLAGS -O3
If you are running bash/sh/ash/ksh/zsh use this:
- IR=-I`pwd`/lb/include
- CPPFLAGS="$IR $IR/libart-2.0 $IR/freetype2 $IR/libpng"
- LDFLAGS="-L`pwd`/lb/lib"
+ CPPFLAGS=-I$INSTALL_DIR/include
+ LDFLAGS="-R$INSTALL_DIR/lib -L$INSTALL_DIR/lib"
CFLAGS=-O3
export CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS CFLAGS
-And finally try building again:
-
- ./configure --prefix=/path/to/installation && make && make install
+And finally try building again. We disable the python and tcl bindings
+because it seems that a fair number of people have ill configured python and
+tcl setups that would prevent rrdtool from building if they are included in
+their current state.
+
+ cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
+ ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-tcl --disable-python
+ make clean
+ make
+ make install
+
+SOLARIS HINT: if you want to build the perl module for the native perl (the
+one shipping with solaris) you will need the sun forte compiler installed on
+your box or you have to hand-tune bindings/perl-shared/Makefile while
+building!
-Now go to I</path/to/installation>B</examples> and run them to see if your
-build has been successful.
+Now go to I<$INSTALL_DIR>B</share/rrdtool/examples/> and run them to see if
+your build has been successful.
=head1 AUTHOR
-Tobias Oetiker E<lt>oetiker@ee.ethz.chE<gt>
+Tobias Oetiker E<lt>tobi@oetiker.chE<gt>
projects / rrdtool.git / blobdiff