3 rrdbuild - Instructions for building RRDtool
7 If you downloaded the source of rrdtool you have to compile it. This
8 document will give some information on how this is done.
10 RRDtool relies on services of thrid part libraries. Some of these libraries
11 may already be installed on your system. You have to compile copies of the other
12 ones before you can build RRDtool.
14 This document will tell you about all the necessary steps to get going.
16 These instructions assume you are using a B<bash> shell. If you use csh/tcsh,
17 then you can either type F<bash> to switch to bash for the compilation or if
18 you know what you are doing just replace the export bits with
21 We further assume that your copies of B<tar> and B<make> are actually B<GNU
22 tar> and B<GNU make> respectively. It could be that they are installed as
23 B<gtar> and B<gmake> on your system.
25 =head1 OPTIMISTIC BUILD
27 Before you start to build RRDtool, you have to decide two things:
33 In which directory you want to build the software.
37 Where you want to install the software.
41 Once you have decided. Save the two locations into environment variables.
43 BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
44 INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.3rc4
47 If your F</tmp> is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that) you have to choose
48 a different directory!
50 Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:
55 Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
58 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.3rc4.tar.gz
59 gunzip -c rrdtool-1.3rc4.tar.gz | tar xf -
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.
66 =head1 INSTALLING DEPENDENCIES
68 If your OS lets you install additional packages from a software repository,
69 you may get away with installing the missing packages. When the packages are
70 installed, run configure again and try to compile again. Below you find some
71 hints on getting your OS ready for the rrdtool compilation. Additions to
72 this list are welcome.
74 =head2 OpenSolaris 2008.05
76 Just add a compiler and the gnome development package:
78 pkg install sunstudioexpress
79 pkg install SUNWgnome-common-devel
81 There is a a problem with F<cairo.pc> on opensolaris. It suggests that
82 xrender is required for compilation with cairo. This is not true and also
83 bad since opensolaris does not include an F<xrender.pc> file. Use perl to
86 perl -i~ -p -e 's/(Requires.*?)\s*xrender.*/$1/' /usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc
88 =head2 Debian / Ubuntu
90 Use apt-get to make sure you have all that is required. A number
91 of packages will get added through dependencies.
93 apt-get install libpango1.0-dev libxml2-dev
95 =head1 BUILDING DEPENDENCIES
97 But again this may have been too optimistic still, and you actually have to
98 compile your own copies of some of the required libraries. Things like
99 libpng and zlib are pretty standard so you will probably have them on your
100 system anyway. Freetype, Fontinst, Cairo, Pango may be installed, but it is
101 possible that they are pretty old and thus don't live up to the
102 expectations, so you may want to compile their latest versions.
104 =head3 Build Tipps for AIX
106 If you are woking with AIX, you may find the the B<--disable-shared> option
107 will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
108 shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with B<--disable-static>
111 Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
113 export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
116 (Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
118 =head2 Building Libraries
120 In order to build the libraries you need a compiler on your system.
121 Unfortunately compilers are not all alike. This has an effect on the CFLAGS
122 you want to set. The examples below are for the popular GCC compiler suite.
123 If you have an other compile you have to use the following settings:
135 Some libraries want to know where other libraries are. For this to work,
136 set the following environamen variable
138 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${INSTALL_DIR}/lib/pkgconfig
139 export PATH=$INSTALL_DIR/bin:$PATH
141 Since we are compiling libraries dynamically, you they must further know
142 where to find each other. This is done by setting an appropriate LDFLAG.
143 Unfortunatly the syntax differs from system to system:
149 export LDFLAGS=-R${INSTALL_DIR}/lib
153 export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath -Wl,${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
155 If you are on a 64bit platform, but would like to continue to use the rrd files created
156 on your old 32bit linux, you may be able
160 export LDFLAGS="+b${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
164 export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-blibpath:${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"
168 If you have GNUmake installed and it is not called 'make',
180 Chances are very high that you already have that on your system ...
183 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
184 gunzip -c zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
186 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --shared
190 =item Building libpng
192 Libpng itself requires zlib to build, so we need to help a bit. If you
193 already have a copy of zlib on your system (which is very likley) you can
194 drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at
195 the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
198 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz
199 gunzip -c libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz | tar xf -
201 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
205 =item Building freetype
208 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
209 gunzip -c freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
211 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
215 If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want to try to
216 add the following at the start the configure line:
220 =item Building LibXML2
223 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libxml2-sources-2.6.31.tar.gz
224 gunzip -c libxml2-sources-2.6.32.tar.gz | tar xf -
225 cd libxml2-sources-2.6.32
226 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
230 =item Building fontconfig
232 Note that fontconfig has a runtime configuration file in INSTALL_DIR/etc you
233 may want to adjust that so that fontconfig finds the fonts on your system.
234 Run the fc-cache program to build the fontconfig cache after changeing the
238 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
239 gunzip -c fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
241 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
245 =item Building Pixman
248 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz
249 gunzip -c pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz | tar xf -
251 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
258 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz
259 gunzip -c cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz | tar xf -
261 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \
263 --enable-xlib-render=no \
272 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.15.4.tar.gz
273 gunzip -c glib-2.12.13.tar.gz | tar xf -
275 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
282 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.21.1.tar.gz
283 gunzip -c pango-1.21.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
285 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" --without-x
291 Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. This time
292 you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and include
293 files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the shell you
294 are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is different.
296 And finally try building again. We disable the python and tcl bindings
297 because it seems that a fair number of people have ill configured python and
298 tcl setups that would prevent rrdtool from building if they are included in
301 cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.3rc4
302 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-tcl --disable-python
307 SOLARIS HINT: if you want to build the perl module for the native perl (the
308 one shipping with solaris) you will need the sun forte compiler installed on
309 your box or you have to hand-tune bindings/perl-shared/Makefile while
312 Now go to I<$INSTALL_DIR>B</share/rrdtool/examples/> and run them to see if
313 your build has been successful.
317 Tobias Oetiker E<lt>tobi@oetiker.chE<gt>