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=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
60 Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
61 B<configure> complaining about several missing libraries. If you are on a
62 Linux or *bsd system you may want to just install the missing bits from your
63 software repository. When you do that, make sure you also get the B<-dev>
64 package for each library you install. Once you have the missing bits on
65 board, just re-run the last line of the instructions above.
67 But again this may have been too optimistic, and you actually have to
68 compile your own copies of the required libraries.
70 If you are woking with AIX, you may find the the B<--disable-shared> option
71 will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
72 shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with B<--disable-static>
73 instead. (Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
80 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
81 tar zxf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
83 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
89 Libpng itself requires zlib to build, so we need to help a bit. If you
90 already have a copy of zlib on your system (which is very likley) you can
91 drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at
92 the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
95 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz
96 tar zxvf libpng-1.2.10.tar.gz
98 env CPPFLAGS="-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include" LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib" CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
99 ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
103 =item Building freetype
106 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.1.10.tar.bz2
107 tar jxvf freetype-2.1.10.tar.bz2
109 env CPPFLAGS="-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include" LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib" CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
110 ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
114 If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want to try to
115 add the following at the end of the configure line:
117 GNUMAKE=gmake EGREP=egrep
119 =item Building libart_lgpl
122 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.17.tar.gz
123 tar zxvf libart_lgpl-2.3.17.tar.gz
124 cd libart_lgpl-2.3.17
125 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
131 Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. Since these
132 are static libraries, you may have to use F<ranlib> to make them accessible.
133 Especially BSD systems like Mac OS X may require this, Linux and Solaris
134 will do just fine without since their F<ar> command does ranlibs job as well.
136 ranlib $BUILD_DIR/lb/lib/*.a
138 This time you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and
139 include files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the
140 shell you are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is
141 different. Under csh/tcsh you use:
143 set IR=-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include
144 setenv CPPFLAGS "$IR $IR/libart-2.0 $IR/freetype2 $IR/libpng"
145 setenv LDFLAGS -L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib
148 If you are running bash/sh/ash/ksh/zsh use this:
150 IR=-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include
151 CPPFLAGS="$IR $IR/libart-2.0 $IR/freetype2 $IR/libpng"
152 LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib"
154 export CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS CFLAGS
156 And finally try building again. We disable the python and tcl bindings
157 because it seems that a fair number of people have ill configured python and
158 tcl setups that would prevent rrdtool from building if they are included in
161 cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.2.13
162 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-python --disable-tcl
167 SOLARIS HINT: if you want to build the perl module for the native perl (the
168 one shipping with solaris) you will need the sun forte compiler
169 installed on your box or you have to hand-tune bindings/perl-shared/Makefile
172 Now go to I<$INSTALL_DIR>B</share/rrdtool/examples/> and run them to see if your
173 build has been successful.
177 Tobias Oetiker E<lt>tobi@oetiker.chE<gt>