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18 <li><a href="#name">NAME</a></li>
19 <li><a href="#overview">OVERVIEW</a></li>
20 <li><a href="#optimistic_build">OPTIMISTIC BUILD</a></li>
21 <li><a href="#installing_dependencies">INSTALLING DEPENDENCIES</a></li>
22 <ul>
24 <li><a href="#opensolaris_2008_05">OpenSolaris 2008.05</a></li>
25 <li><a href="#debian___ubuntu">Debian / Ubuntu</a></li>
26 <li><a href="#gentoo">Gentoo</a></li>
27 </ul>
29 <li><a href="#building_dependencies">BUILDING DEPENDENCIES</a></li>
30 <ul>
32 <li><a href="#general_build_tips_for_aix">General build tips for AIX</a></li>
33 <li><a href="#build_instructions">Build Instructions</a></li>
34 <ul>
36 <li><a href="#building_pkgconfig">Building pkgconfig</a></li>
37 <li><a href="#building_zlib">Building zlib</a></li>
38 <li><a href="#building_libpng">Building libpng</a></li>
39 <li><a href="#building_freetype">Building freetype</a></li>
40 <li><a href="#building_libxml2">Building LibXML2</a></li>
41 <li><a href="#building_fontconfig">Building fontconfig</a></li>
42 <li><a href="#building_pixman">Building Pixman</a></li>
43 <li><a href="#building_cairo">Building Cairo</a></li>
44 <li><a href="#building_glib">Building Glib</a></li>
45 <li><a href="#building_pango">Building Pango</a></li>
46 </ul>
48 <li><a href="#building_rrdtool__second_try_">Building rrdtool (second try)</a></li>
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58 <h1><a name="name">NAME</a></h1>
59 <p>rrdbuild - Instructions for building RRDtool</p>
60 <p>
61 </p>
62 <hr />
63 <h1><a name="overview">OVERVIEW</a></h1>
64 <p>If you downloaded the source of rrdtool you have to compile it. This
65 document will give some information on how this is done.</p>
66 <p>RRDtool relies on services of third part libraries. Some of these libraries
67 may already be installed on your system. You have to compile copies of the other
68 ones before you can build RRDtool.</p>
69 <p>This document will tell you about all the necessary steps to get going.</p>
70 <p>These instructions assume you are using a <strong>bash</strong> shell. If you use csh/tcsh,
71 then you can either type <em>bash</em> to switch to bash for the compilation or if
72 you know what you are doing just replace the export bits with
73 setenv.</p>
74 <p>We further assume that your copies of <strong>tar</strong> and <strong>make</strong> are actually <strong>GNU
75 tar</strong> and <strong>GNU make</strong> respectively. It could be that they are installed as
76 <strong>gtar</strong> and <strong>gmake</strong> on your system.</p>
77 <p>
78 </p>
79 <hr />
80 <h1><a name="optimistic_build">OPTIMISTIC BUILD</a></h1>
81 <p>Before you start to build RRDtool, you have to decide two things:</p>
82 <ol>
83 <li>
84 <p>In which directory you want to build the software.</p>
85 </li>
86 <li>
87 <p>Where you want to install the software.</p>
88 </li>
89 </ol>
90 <p>Once you have decided. Save the two locations into environment variables.</p>
91 <pre>
92 BUILD_DIR=/tmp/rrdbuild
93 INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.3.7</pre>
94 <p>If your <em>/tmp</em> is mounted with the option noexec (RHEL seems todo that) you have to choose
95 a different directory!</p>
96 <p>Now make sure the BUILD_DIR exists and go there:</p>
97 <pre>
98 mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR
99 cd $BUILD_DIR</pre>
100 <p>Lets first assume you already have all the necessary libraries
101 pre-installed.</p>
102 <pre>
103 wget <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.3.7.tar.gz">http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.3.7.tar.gz</a>
104 gunzip -c rrdtool-1.3.7.tar.gz | tar xf -
105 cd rrdtool-1.3.7
106 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install</pre>
107 <p>Ok, this was very optimistic. This try will probably have ended with
108 <strong>configure</strong> complaining about several missing libraries.</p>
109 <p>
110 </p>
111 <hr />
112 <h1><a name="installing_dependencies">INSTALLING DEPENDENCIES</a></h1>
113 <p>If your OS lets you install additional packages from a software repository,
114 you may get away with installing the missing packages. When the packages are
115 installed, run configure again and try to compile again. Below you find some
116 hints on getting your OS ready for the rrdtool compilation.</p>
117 <p>Additions to this list are welcome. In general rrdtool should work with the
118 latest versions of the libraries. The versions listed here are just what was
119 current when I tested this.</p>
120 <p>
121 </p>
122 <h2><a name="opensolaris_2008_05">OpenSolaris 2008.05</a></h2>
123 <p>Just add a compiler and the gnome development package:</p>
124 <pre>
125 pkg install sunstudioexpress
126 pkg install SUNWgnome-common-devel</pre>
127 <p>There is a problem with <em>cairo.pc</em> on OpenSolaris. It suggests that
128 xrender is required for compilation with cairo. This is not true and also
129 bad since OpenSolaris does not include an <em>xrender.pc</em> file. Use Perl to
130 fix this:</p>
131 <pre>
132 perl -i~ -p -e 's/(Requires.*?)\s*xrender.*/$1/' /usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc</pre>
133 <p>Make sure rrdtool finds your new compiler</p>
134 <pre>
135 export PATH=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin</pre>
136 <p>Since there does not seem to be a viable msgfmt tool on OpenSolaris (short
137 of installing it yourself). You have to call configure with the</p>
138 <pre>
139 --disable-libintl</pre>
140 <p>option.</p>
141 <p>
142 </p>
143 <h2><a name="debian___ubuntu">Debian / Ubuntu</a></h2>
144 <p>Use apt-get to make sure you have all that is required. A number
145 of packages will get added through dependencies.</p>
146 <pre>
147 apt-get install libpango1.0-dev libxml2-dev</pre>
148 <p>
149 </p>
150 <h2><a name="gentoo">Gentoo</a></h2>
151 <p>In Gentoo installing rrdtool is really simple you just need to <strong>emerge
152 rrdtool</strong>. All dependencies will be handled automatically by the portage
153 system. The only thing you should care about are USE flags, which allow you
154 fine tune features rrdtool will be built with. Currently the following USE
155 flags are available:</p>
156 <pre>
157 doc - install .html and .txt documentation
158 into /usr/share/doc/rrdtool-1.x.xx/
159 perl - build and install perl language bindings
160 python - build and install python language bindings
161 ruby - build and install ruby language bindings
162 tcl - build and install tcl language bindings
163 rrdcgi - build and install rrdcgi</pre>
164 <p>After you've decided which USE flags you need, set them either in
165 <em>make.conf</em> or <em>/etc/portage/package.use</em> and finally run:</p>
166 <pre>
167 # emerge -va rrdtool</pre>
168 <p>Take a look at Gentoo handbook for further details on how to manage USE
169 flags: <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2">http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2</a></p>
170 <p>
171 </p>
172 <hr />
173 <h1><a name="building_dependencies">BUILDING DEPENDENCIES</a></h1>
174 <p>But again this may have been too optimistic still, and you actually have to
175 compile your own copies of some of the required libraries. Things like
176 libpng and zlib are pretty standard so you will probably have them on your
177 system anyway. Freetype, Fontinst, Cairo, Pango may be installed, but it is
178 possible that they are pretty old and thus don't live up to our
179 expectations, so you may want to compile their latest versions.</p>
180 <p>
181 </p>
182 <h2><a name="general_build_tips_for_aix">General build tips for AIX</a></h2>
183 <p>If you are working with AIX, you may find the <strong>--disable-shared</strong> option
184 will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
185 shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with <strong>--disable-static</strong>
186 instead.</p>
187 <p>Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:</p>
188 <pre>
189 export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
190 export PERLCC=$CC</pre>
191 <p>(Better instructions for AIX welcome!)</p>
192 <p>
193 </p>
194 <h2><a name="build_instructions">Build Instructions</a></h2>
195 <p>Some libraries want to know where other libraries are. For this to work,
196 set the following environment variable</p>
197 <pre>
198 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${INSTALL_DIR}/lib/pkgconfig
199 export PATH=$INSTALL_DIR/bin:$PATH</pre>
200 <p>The above relies on the presence of the <em>pkgconfig</em> program. Below you find instructions
201 on how to compile pkgconfig.</p>
202 <p>Since we are compiling libraries dynamically, they must know where to find
203 each other. This is done by setting an appropriate LDFLAGS. Unfortunately,
204 the syntax again differs from system to system:</p>
205 <dl>
206 <dt><strong><a name="item_solaris">Solaris</a></strong></dt>
208 <dd>
209 <pre>
210 export LDFLAGS=-R${INSTALL_DIR}/lib</pre>
211 <p>if you are using the Sun Studio/Forte compiler, you may also want to set</p>
212 <pre>
213 export CFLAGS="-xO3 -xcode=pic13" (SPARC)
214 export CFLAGS="-xO3 -Kpic" (x86)</pre>
215 </dd>
216 <dt><strong><a name="item_linux">Linux</a></strong></dt>
218 <dd>
219 <pre>
220 export CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
221 export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--rpath -Wl,${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"</pre>
222 </dd>
223 <dt><strong><a name="item_hpux">HPUX</a></strong></dt>
225 <dd>
226 <pre>
227 export LDFLAGS="+b${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"</pre>
228 </dd>
229 <dt><strong><a name="item_aix">AIX</a></strong></dt>
231 <dd>
232 <pre>
233 export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-blibpath:${INSTALL_DIR}/lib"</pre>
234 </dd>
235 </dl>
236 <p>If you have GNU make installed and it is not called 'make',
237 then do</p>
238 <pre>
239 export MAKE=gmake
240 export GNUMAKE=gmake</pre>
241 <p>otherwise just do</p>
242 <pre>
243 export MAKE=make</pre>
244 <p>
245 </p>
246 <h3><a name="building_pkgconfig">Building pkgconfig</a></h3>
247 <p>As mentioned above, without pkgconfig the whole build process will be lots
248 of pain and suffering, so make sure you have a copy on your system. If it is
249 not available natively, here is how to compile it.</p>
250 <pre>
251 wget <a href="http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz">http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz</a>
252 gunzip -c pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz | tar xf -
253 cd pkg-config-0.23
254 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
255 $MAKE
256 $MAKE install</pre>
257 <p>After installing pkgconfig in a custom directory, setting up the corresponding
258 environment variable will be helpful.</p>
259 <pre>
260 export PKG_CONFIG=$INSTALL_DIR/bin/pkg-config</pre>
261 <p>
262 </p>
263 <h3><a name="building_zlib">Building zlib</a></h3>
264 <p>Chances are very high that you already have that on your system ...</p>
265 <pre>
266 cd $BUILD_DIR
267 wget <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz">http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz</a>
268 gunzip -c zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
269 cd zlib-1.2.3
270 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --shared
271 $MAKE
272 $MAKE install</pre>
273 <p>
274 </p>
275 <h3><a name="building_libpng">Building libpng</a></h3>
276 <p>Libpng itself requires zlib to build, so we need to help a bit. If you
277 already have a copy of zlib on your system (which is very likely) you can
278 drop the settings of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Note that the backslash (\) at
279 the end of line 4 means that line 4 and line 5 are on one line.</p>
280 <pre>
281 cd $BUILD_DIR
282 wget <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz">http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz</a>
283 gunzip -c libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz | tar xf -
284 cd libpng-1.2.18
285 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
286 $MAKE
287 $MAKE install</pre>
288 <p>
289 </p>
290 <h3><a name="building_freetype">Building freetype</a></h3>
291 <pre>
292 cd $BUILD_DIR
293 wget <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz">http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz</a>
294 gunzip -c freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
295 cd freetype-2.3.5
296 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
297 $MAKE
298 $MAKE install</pre>
299 <p>If you run into problems building freetype on Solaris, you may want to try to
300 add the following at the start the configure line:</p>
301 <pre>
302 env EGREP=egrep</pre>
303 <p>
304 </p>
305 <h3><a name="building_libxml2">Building LibXML2</a></h3>
306 <pre>
307 cd $BUILD_DIR
308 wget <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz">http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz</a>
309 gunzip -c libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz | tar xf -
310 cd libxml2-2.6.32
311 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
312 $MAKE
313 $MAKE install</pre>
314 <p>
315 </p>
316 <h3><a name="building_fontconfig">Building fontconfig</a></h3>
317 <p>Note that fontconfig has a run time configuration file in INSTALL_DIR/etc you
318 may want to adjust that so that fontconfig finds the fonts on your system.
319 Run the fc-cache program to build the fontconfig cache after changing the
320 config file.</p>
321 <pre>
322 cd $BUILD_DIR
323 wget <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz">http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz</a>
324 gunzip -c fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
325 cd fontconfig-2.4.2
326 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --with-freetype-config=$INSTALL_DIR/bin/freetype-config
327 $MAKE
328 $MAKE install</pre>
329 <p>
330 </p>
331 <h3><a name="building_pixman">Building Pixman</a></h3>
332 <pre>
333 cd $BUILD_DIR
334 wget <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz">http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz</a>
335 gunzip -c pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz | tar xf -
336 cd pixman-0.10.0
337 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
338 $MAKE
339 $MAKE install</pre>
340 <p>
341 </p>
342 <h3><a name="building_cairo">Building Cairo</a></h3>
343 <pre>
344 cd $BUILD_DIR
345 wget <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz">http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz</a>
346 gunzip -c cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz | tar xf -
347 cd cairo-1.6.4
348 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR \
349 --enable-xlib=no \
350 --enable-xlib-render=no \
351 --enable-win32=no
352 $MAKE
353 $MAKE install</pre>
354 <p>
355 </p>
356 <h3><a name="building_glib">Building Glib</a></h3>
357 <pre>
358 cd $BUILD_DIR
359 wget <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.15.4.tar.gz">http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/glib-2.15.4.tar.gz</a>
360 gunzip -c glib-2.15.4.tar.gz | tar xf -
361 cd glib-2.15.4
362 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
363 $MAKE
364 $MAKE install</pre>
365 <p>
366 </p>
367 <h3><a name="building_pango">Building Pango</a></h3>
368 <pre>
369 cd $BUILD_DIR
370 wget <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.21.1.tar.bz2">http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/libs/pango-1.21.1.tar.bz2</a>
371 bunzip2 -c pango-1.21.1.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
372 cd pango-1.21.1
373 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --without-x
374 $MAKE
375 $MAKE install</pre>
376 <p>
377 </p>
378 <h2><a name="building_rrdtool__second_try_">Building rrdtool (second try)</a></h2>
379 <p>Now all the dependent libraries are built and you can try again. This time
380 you tell configure where it should be looking for libraries and include
381 files. This is done via environment variables. Depending on the shell you
382 are running, the syntax for setting environment variables is different.</p>
383 <p>And finally try building again. We disable the python and tcl bindings
384 because it seems that a fair number of people have ill configured python and
385 tcl setups that would prevent rrdtool from building if they are included in
386 their current state.</p>
387 <pre>
388 cd $BUILD_DIR/rrdtool-1.3.7
389 ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --disable-tcl --disable-python
390 $MAKE clean
391 $MAKE
392 $MAKE install</pre>
393 <p>SOLARIS HINT: if you want to build the Perl module for the native Perl (the
394 one shipping with Solaris) you will need the Sun Forte compiler installed on
395 your box or you have to hand-tune bindings/perl-shared/Makefile while
396 building!</p>
397 <p>Now go to <em>$INSTALL_DIR</em><strong>/share/rrdtool/examples/</strong> and run them to see if
398 your build has been successful.</p>
399 <p>
400 </p>
401 <hr />
402 <h1><a name="author">AUTHOR</a></h1>
403 <p>Tobias Oetiker <<a href="mailto:tobi@oetiker.ch">tobi@oetiker.ch</a>></p>
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