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-1.2.12
42 set BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
43 set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.12
45 Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
50 Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
51 per-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://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.2.12.tar.gz
56 tar zxf rrdtool-1.2.12.tar.gz
58 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
60 Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
61 B<configure> complaining about several missing libraries. If you are on a
62 Linux or *bsd system you may want to just install the missing bits from your
63 software repository. When you do that, make sure you also get the B<-dev>
64 package for each library you install. Once you have the missing bits on
65 board, just re-run the last line of the instructions above.
67 But again this may have been too optimistic, and you actually have to
68 compile your own copies of the required libraries. Here is how:
75 wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.2.tar.gz
76 tar zxf zlib-1.2.2.tar.gz
78 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
84 Libpng itself requires zlib to build, so we need to help a bit. If you
85 already have a copy of zlib on your system (which is very likley) you can
86 drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at
87 the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
90 wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz
91 tar zxvf libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz
92 cd libpng-1.2.8-config
93 env CPPFLAGS="-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include" LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib" CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
94 ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
98 =item Building freetype
101 wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.1.9.tar.gz
102 tar zxvf freetype-2.1.9.tar.gz
104 env CPPFLAGS="-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include" LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib" CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
105 ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
109 If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want to try to
110 add the following at the end of the configure line:
112 GNUMAKE=gmake EGREP=egrep
114 =item Building libart_lgpl
117 wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.17.tar.gz
118 tar zxvf libart_lgpl-2.3.17.tar.gz
119 cd libart_lgpl-2.3.17
120 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
126 Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. Since these
127 are static libraries, you may have to use F<ranlib> to make them accessible.
128 Especially BSD systems like Mac OS X may require this, Linux and Solaris
129 will do just fine without since their F<ar> command does ranlibs job as well.
131 ranlib $BUILD_DIR/lb/lib/*.a
133 This time you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and
134 include files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the
135 shell you are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is
136 different. Under csh/tcsh you use:
138 set IR=-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include
139 setenv CPPFLAGS "$IR $IR/libart-2.0 $IR/freetype2 $IR/libpng"
140 setenv LDFLAGS -L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib
143 If you are running bash/sh/ash/ksh/zsh use this:
145 IR=-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include
146 CPPFLAGS="$IR $IR/libart-2.0 $IR/freetype2 $IR/libpng"
147 LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib"
149 export CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS CFLAGS
151 And finally try building again. We disable the python and tcl bindings
152 because it seems that a fair number of people have ill configured python and
153 tcl setups that would prevent rrdtool from building if they are included in
156 cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.2.12
157 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-python --disable-tcl
162 Now go to I<$INSTALL_DIR>B</share/rrdtool/examples/> and run them to see if your
163 build has been successful.
167 Tobias Oetiker E<lt>oetiker@ee.ethz.chE<gt>