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-1.2.99907080300
42 set BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
43 set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
45 If your F</tmp> is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that) you have to choose
46 a different directory!
48 Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
53 Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
54 pre-installed. Note that these instructions assume that your copies of
55 B<tar> and B<make> are actually B<GNU tar> and B<GNU make> respectively. It
56 could be that they are installed as B<gtar> and B<gmake> on your system.
58 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300.tar.gz
59 tar zxf rrdtool-1.2.99907080300.tar.gz
60 cd rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
61 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
63 Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
64 B<configure> complaining about several missing libraries. If you are on a
65 Linux or *bsd system you may want to just install the missing bits from your
66 software repository. When you do that, make sure you also get the B<-dev>
67 package for each library you install. Once you have the missing bits on
68 board, just re-run the last line of the instructions above.
70 But again this may have been too optimistic, and you actually have to
71 compile your own copies of the required libraries.
73 =head3 Build Tipps for AIX
75 If you are woking with AIX, you may find the the B<--disable-shared> option
76 will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
77 shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with B<--disable-static>
80 Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
82 export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
85 (Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
87 =head2 Building Libraries
89 In order to build the libraries you need a compiler on your system.
90 Unfortunately compilers are not all alike. This has an effect on the CFLAGS
91 you want to set. The examples below are for the popular GCC compiler suite.
92 If you have an other compile you have to use the following settings:
104 Some libraries want to know where other libraries are. For this to work,
105 set the following environamen variable
107 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${INSTALLDIR}/lib/pkgconfig
111 setenv PKG_CONFIG_PATH ${INSTALLDIR}/lib/pkgconfig
115 Chances are very high that you already have that on your system ...
118 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
119 tar zxf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
121 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
125 =item Building libpng
127 Libpng itself requires zlib to build, so we need to help a bit. If you
128 already have a copy of zlib on your system (which is very likley) you can
129 drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at
130 the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
133 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz
134 tar zxvf libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz
136 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
140 =item Building freetype
143 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
144 tar zxvf freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
146 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
147 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
151 If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want to try to
152 add the following at the end of the configure line:
154 GNUMAKE=gmake EGREP=egrep
156 =item Building fontconfig
158 Note that fontconfig has a runtime configuration file in INSTALL_DIR/etc you
159 may want to adjust that so that fontconfig finds the fonts on your system.
160 Run the fc-cache program to build the fontconfig cache after changeing the
164 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
165 tar zxvf fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
167 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
174 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz
175 tar zxvf cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz
177 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \
179 --enable-xlib-render=no \
187 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.12.13.tar.gz
188 tar zxvf glib-2.12.13.tar.gz
190 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
197 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.17.5.tar.gz
198 tar zxvf pango-1.17.5.tar.gz
200 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
206 Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. This time
207 you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and include
208 files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the shell you
209 are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is different.
210 Under csh/tcsh you use:
212 setenv CPPFLAGS -I$INSTALL_DIR/include
213 setenv LDFLAGS "-L$INSTALL_DIR/lib -R$INSTALL_DIR/lib"
216 If you are running bash/sh/ash/ksh/zsh use this:
218 CPPFLAGS=-I$INSTALL_DIR/include
219 LDFLAGS="-R$INSTALL_DIR/lib -L$INSTALL_DIR/lib"
221 export CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS CFLAGS
223 And finally try building again. We disable the python and tcl bindings
224 because it seems that a fair number of people have ill configured python and
225 tcl setups that would prevent rrdtool from building if they are included in
228 cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.2.99907080300
229 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-tcl --disable-python
234 SOLARIS HINT: if you want to build the perl module for the native perl (the
235 one shipping with solaris) you will need the sun forte compiler installed on
236 your box or you have to hand-tune bindings/perl-shared/Makefile while
239 Now go to I<$INSTALL_DIR>B</share/rrdtool/examples/> and run them to see if
240 your build has been successful.
244 Tobias Oetiker E<lt>tobi@oetiker.chE<gt>