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.
20 Before you start to build RRDtool, you have to decide two things:
26 In which directory you want to build the software.
30 Where you want to install the software.
34 Once you have decided. Save the two locations into environment variables.
35 Depending on the shell you are using, you can do either (bash,zsh):
37 BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
38 INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.13
42 set BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
43 set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.13
45 Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
50 Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
51 pre-installed. Note that these instructions assume that your copies of
52 B<tar> and B<make> are actually B<GNU tar> and B<GNU make> respectively. It
53 could be that they are installed as B<gtar> and B<gmake> on your system.
55 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.2.13.tar.gz
56 tar zxf rrdtool-1.2.13.tar.gz
58 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
60 Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
61 B<configure> complaining about several missing libraries. If you are on a
62 Linux or *bsd system you may want to just install the missing bits from your
63 software repository. When you do that, make sure you also get the B<-dev>
64 package for each library you install. Once you have the missing bits on
65 board, just re-run the last line of the instructions above.
67 But again this may have been too optimistic, and you actually have to
68 compile your own copies of the required libraries.
70 =head2 Building on AIX
72 If you are woking with AIX, you may find the the B<--disable-shared> option
73 will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
74 shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with B<--disable-static>
77 Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
79 export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
82 (Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
86 =head2 Building Libraries
91 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
92 tar zxf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
94 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
100 Libpng itself requires zlib to build, so we need to help a bit. If you
101 already have a copy of zlib on your system (which is very likley) you can
102 drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at
103 the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
106 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz
107 tar zxvf libpng-1.2.10.tar.gz
109 env CPPFLAGS="-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include" LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib" CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
110 ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
114 =item Building freetype
117 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.1.10.tar.bz2
118 tar jxvf freetype-2.1.10.tar.bz2
120 env CPPFLAGS="-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include" LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib" CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
121 ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
125 If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want to try to
126 add the following at the end of the configure line:
128 GNUMAKE=gmake EGREP=egrep
130 =item Building libart_lgpl
133 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.17.tar.gz
134 tar zxvf libart_lgpl-2.3.17.tar.gz
135 cd libart_lgpl-2.3.17
136 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
142 Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. Since these
143 are static libraries, you may have to use F<ranlib> to make them accessible.
144 Especially BSD systems like Mac OS X may require this, Linux and Solaris
145 will do just fine without since their F<ar> command does ranlibs job as well.
147 ranlib $BUILD_DIR/lb/lib/*.a
149 This time you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and
150 include files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the
151 shell you are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is
152 different. Under csh/tcsh you use:
154 set IR=-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include
155 setenv CPPFLAGS "$IR $IR/libart-2.0 $IR/freetype2 $IR/libpng"
156 setenv LDFLAGS -L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib
159 If you are running bash/sh/ash/ksh/zsh use this:
161 IR=-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include
162 CPPFLAGS="$IR $IR/libart-2.0 $IR/freetype2 $IR/libpng"
163 LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib"
165 export CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS CFLAGS
167 And finally try building again. We disable the python and tcl bindings
168 because it seems that a fair number of people have ill configured python and
169 tcl setups that would prevent rrdtool from building if they are included in
172 cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.2.13
173 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-python --disable-tcl
178 SOLARIS HINT: if you want to build the perl module for the native perl (the
179 one shipping with solaris) you will need the sun forte compiler
180 installed on your box or you have to hand-tune bindings/perl-shared/Makefile
183 Now go to I<$INSTALL_DIR>B</share/rrdtool/examples/> and run them to see if your
184 build has been successful.
188 Tobias Oetiker E<lt>tobi@oetiker.chE<gt>