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 B<bash> shell. If you use csh/tcsh,
19 then you can either type F<bash> to switch to bash for the compilation or if
20 you know what you are doing just 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.
45 BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
46 INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
49 If your F</tmp> is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that) you have to choose
50 a different directory!
52 Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
57 Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
60 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300.tar.gz
61 gunzip -c rrdtool-1.2.99907080300.tar.gz | tar xf -
62 cd rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
63 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
65 Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
66 B<configure> complaining about several missing libraries. If you are on a
67 Linux or *bsd system you may want to just install the missing bits from your
68 software repository. When you do that, make sure you also get the B<-dev>
69 package for each library you install. Once you have the missing bits on
70 board, just re-run the last line of the instructions above.
72 But again this may have been too optimistic, and you actually have to
73 compile your own copies of some of the required libraries. Things like
74 libpng and zlib are pretty standard so you will probably have them on your
75 system anyway. Freetype, Fontinst, Cairo, Pango may be installed, but it is
76 possible that they are pretty old and thus don't live up to the
77 expectations, so you may want to compile their latest versions.
79 =head3 Build Tipps for AIX
81 If you are woking with AIX, you may find the the B<--disable-shared> option
82 will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
83 shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with B<--disable-static>
86 Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
88 export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
91 (Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
93 =head2 Building Libraries
95 In order to build the libraries you need a compiler on your system.
96 Unfortunately compilers are not all alike. This has an effect on the CFLAGS
97 you want to set. The examples below are for the popular GCC compiler suite.
98 If you have an other compile you have to use the following settings:
110 Some libraries want to know where other libraries are. For this to work,
111 set the following environamen variable
113 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${INSTALL_DIR}/lib/pkgconfig
114 export PATH=$INSTALL_DIR/bin:$PATH
116 Since we are compiling libraries dynamically, you they must further know
117 where to find each other. This is done by setting an appropriate LDFLAG.
118 Unfortunatly the syntax differs from system to system:
124 export LDFLAGS=-R${INSTALL_DIR}/lib
128 export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath -Wl,${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
132 export LDFLAGS="+b${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
136 export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-blibpath:${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
140 If you have GNUmake installed and it is not called 'make',
153 Chances are very high that you already have that on your system ...
156 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
157 gunzip -c zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
159 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
163 =item Building libpng
165 Libpng itself requires zlib to build, so we need to help a bit. If you
166 already have a copy of zlib on your system (which is very likley) you can
167 drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at
168 the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
171 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz
172 gunzip -c libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz | tar xf -
174 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
178 =item Building freetype
181 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
182 gunzip -c freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
184 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
188 If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want to try to
189 add the following at the start the configure line:
193 =item Building fontconfig
195 Note that fontconfig has a runtime configuration file in INSTALL_DIR/etc you
196 may want to adjust that so that fontconfig finds the fonts on your system.
197 Run the fc-cache program to build the fontconfig cache after changeing the
201 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
202 gunzip -c fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
204 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
211 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz
212 gunzip -c cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz | tar xf -
214 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \
216 --enable-xlib-render=no \
225 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.12.13.tar.gz
226 gunzip -c glib-2.12.13.tar.gz | tar xf -
228 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
235 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.17.5.tar.gz
236 gunzip -c pango-1.17.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
238 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
242 =item Building LibXML2
245 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libxml2-sources-2.6.31.tar.gz
246 gunzip -c libxml2-sources-2.6.31.tar.gz | tar xf -
247 cd libxml2-sources-2.6.31
248 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
254 Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. This time
255 you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and include
256 files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the shell you
257 are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is different.
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>