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=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
63 Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
64 B<configure> complaining about several missing libraries. If you are on a
65 Linux or *bsd system you may want to just install the missing bits from your
66 software repository. When you do that, make sure you also get the B<-dev>
67 package for each library you install. Once you have the missing bits on
68 board, just re-run the last line of the instructions above.
70 But again this may have been too optimistic, and you actually have to
71 compile your own copies of the required libraries.
73 =head3 Build Tipps for AIX
75 If you are woking with AIX, you may find the the B<--disable-shared> option
76 will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
77 shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with B<--disable-static>
80 Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
82 export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
85 (Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
87 =head2 Building Libraries
89 In order to build the libraries you need a compiler on your system.
90 Unfortunately compilers are not all alike. This has an effect on the CFLAGS
91 you want to set. The examples below are for the popular GCC compiler suite.
92 If you have an other compile you have to use the following settings:
106 Chances are very high that you already have that on your system ...
109 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
110 tar zxf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
112 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
116 =item Building libpng
118 Libpng itself requires zlib to build, so we need to help a bit. If you
119 already have a copy of zlib on your system (which is very likley) you can
120 drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at
121 the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.
124 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz
125 tar zxvf libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz
127 env CPPFLAGS="-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include" LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib" CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
128 ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
132 =item Building freetype
135 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
136 tar zxvf freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
138 env CPPFLAGS="-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include" LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib" CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" \
139 ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=$BUILD_DIR/lb
143 If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want to try to
144 add the following at the end of the configure line:
146 GNUMAKE=gmake EGREP=egrep
148 =item Building fontconfig
150 Note that fontconfig has a runtime configuration file in INSTALL_DIR/etc you
151 may want to adjust that so that fontconfig finds the fonts on your system.
152 Run the fc-cache program to build the fontconfig cache after changeing the
156 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
157 tar zxvf fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
159 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
166 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz
167 tar zxvf cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz
169 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \
171 --enable-xlib-render=no \
179 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.12.13.tar.gz
180 tar zxvf glib-2.12.13.tar.gz
182 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
189 wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.17.5.tar.gz
190 tar zxvf pango-1.17.5.tar.gz
192 env CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
198 Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. Since these
199 are static libraries, you may have to use F<ranlib> to make them accessible.
200 Especially BSD systems like Mac OS X may require this, Linux and Solaris
201 will do just fine without since their F<ar> command does ranlibs job as well.
203 ranlib $BUILD_DIR/lb/lib/*.a
205 This time you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and
206 include files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the
207 shell you are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is
208 different. Under csh/tcsh you use:
210 set IR="-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include -I$INSTALL_DIR/include"
211 setenv CPPFLAGS "$IR"
212 setenv LDFLAGS -L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib
215 If you are running bash/sh/ash/ksh/zsh use this:
217 IR="-I$BUILD_DIR/lb/include -I$INSTALL_DIR/include"
219 LDFLAGS="-L$BUILD_DIR/lb/lib -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
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
236 installed on your box or you have to hand-tune bindings/perl-shared/Makefile
239 Now go to I<$INSTALL_DIR>B</share/rrdtool/examples/> and run them to see if your
240 build has been successful.
244 Tobias Oetiker E<lt>tobi@oetiker.chE<gt>