I first got involved with CouchDB around 0.7. Only having a low-spec Windows PC to develop on, and no CouchDB Cloud provider being available, I tried to build CouchDB myself. It was hard going, and most of the frustration was trying to get the core Erlang environment set up and compiling without needing to buy Microsoft's expensive but excellent Visual Studio tools myself. Once Erlang was working I found many of the pre-requisite modules such as cURL, Zlib, OpenSSL, Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, and IBM's ICU were not available at a consistent compiler and VC runtime release.
Glazier is a set of related scripts and toolchains to ease that pain. It's not fully automated but most of the effort is only required once. I hope it simplifies using Erlang and CouchDB for you by giving you a consistent repeatable build environment.
There is a branch of glazier that was used to build each CouchDB release. I'm in the process of migrating a large portion of the setup scripts to use Chocolatey for installing pre-requisites, and then to roll most of the code into the CouchDB autotools scripts.
When I build Erlang/OTP from source, or CouchDB, I typically spend 80% of my
time faffing around getting dependencies right. I want to make this as easy as
aptitude install -y <list_of_packages>
.
Here's the general approach:
- 64-bit Windows + 64-bit SDK 7.1 + optionally Visual Studio 2012
- chocolatey packages for remaining dev tool dependencies
- Cygwin latest development tools
Onwards!
While any 64-bit Windows will likely do, I use specifically:
-
64-bit Windows 8 Enterprise N (the Euro version without media player etc) from MSDN en-gb_windows_8_enterprise_n_x64_dvd_918053.iso
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Install the full Microsoft .Net Framework 4
-
reboot and run updates
-
Install Windows SDK 7.1
-
Optionally, Install
Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate
via the web installer for a nice UI & debugger interface -
Install the NuGet Package Manager
-
Install Chocolatey:
@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://raw.github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/master/chocolateyInstall/InstallChocolatey.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%systemdrive%\chocolatey\bin
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Apply Windows Updates and Reboot until Done.
Typically here I shutdown & snapshot my VM as past this point its going to evolve a lot over time. Many of the downstream chocolatey packages still prompt you to run their installers, which arguably defeats the purpose, but hey its still marginally easier.
These packages install silently, without intervention. Cut and paste them into a command prompt, leave it running, and open another one for the next section.
cinst git
cinst 7zip.commandline
cinst sublimetext2
cinst StrawberryPerl
cinst nsis
cinst MozillaBuild
cinst nasm
cinst InnoSetup
cinst sysinternals
cinst dependencywalker
cinst cmake
cinst SourceCodePro
cinst firefox
cinst GoogleChrome.Canary
cinst ChocolateyPackageUpdater
cinst MicrosoftSecurityEssentials
cinst msicuu2
Download and run Cygwin Setup
Confirm you have:
ARCHIVE/
- p7zip
DEVEL/
- auto*
- binutils
- bison
- gcc-core
- gcc-g++
- gcc4-core
- gcc4-g++
- gdb
- git
- libtool
- make
- patchutils
- pkgconfig
- readline
EDITORS/
- vim
INTERPRETERS/
- M4
- perl
- python
NET/
- aria2
UTILS/
- file
- gnupg
- rename
- socat
- time
- tree
- util-linux
WEB/
- wget
Ensure you DON'T have:
- help2man
- curl
Start a new cygwin shell:
cd /cygdrive/c/relax/bits
wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive-2012.09.08.tar.gz
tar zxf autoconf-archive-2012.09.08.tar.gz
cd autoconf-archive-2012.09.08
./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install
Still within cygwin:
cd /relax/bits
wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg
sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg
easy_install sphinx docutils pygments
# check its working
sphinx-build -h
Make a new shortcut on the desktop, targeted at
cmd.exe /E:ON /V:ON /T:0E /K "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\SetEnv.cmd" /x86 /release
and I suggest you pin it to the start menu. We'll use this all the time,
referred to as the SDK prompt
. Right-click on the icon, click the advanced
button, and tick the Run as Administrator
button. We do need this so that
cp -P
works within autotools on Windows8.
When you launch one, the text will be an unreadable green. Type color
to
fix it. Color takes parameters if you hate yellow. Borland users will like
color 1f
. Let's confirm we have the right bits with
echo %RELAX% && where cl mc mt link lc rc nmake
:
c:\relax
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\cl.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\MC.Exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\mt.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\link.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\lc.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\lc.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\RC.Exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\nmake.exe
Stop here if it's not identical. Not Visual Studio 11.0. Not SDK v8.0a, or 7.0, or 7.0a, or any other satanic god-forsaken combination not listed here. Seriously. Identical.
mkdir c:\relax\bits
pushd c:\relax && rd SDK VC nasm inno5 nsis strawberry
mklink /j c:\relax\SDK "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1"
mklink /j c:\relax\VC "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0"
mklink /j nasm "c:\Program Files (x86)\nasm"
mklink /j c:\relax\inno5 "c:\Program Files (x86)\Inno Setup 5"
mklink /j c:\relax\nsis "c:\Program Files\NSIS"
:: these ones are for the picky software packagers
mklink /j c:\cygwin\relax c:\relax
mklink /j c:\openssl c:\relax\openssl
setx RELAX c:\relax
set RELAX=c:\relax
Close all open command prompts. Now!!
git clone git://github.com/dch/glazier.git c:\relax
pushd c:\relax && path=c:\relax\bin;%PATH%;
aria2c.exe --force-sequential=false --max-connection-per-server=5 --check-certificate=false --auto-file-renaming=false --input-file=downloads.md --max-concurrent-downloads=5 --dir=bits --save-session=bits/a2session.txt
Open a new SDK prompt. Check that it has /x86 /Release Build
in the title bar.
pushd %RELAX%\bin && build_wx.cmd
pushd %RELAX%\bin && build_openssl.cmd
pushd %RELAX%\bin && build_icu.cmd
Our goal is to get the path set up in this order:
- erlang and couchdb build helper scripts
- Microsoft VC compiler, linker, etc from Windows SDK
- cygwin path for other build tools like make, autoconf, libtool
- the remaining windows system path
It seems this is a challenge for most environments, so glazier
just
assumes you're using chocolatey and takes care of the rest.
- start your
SDK prompt
as above - launch a cygwin erl-ified shell via
c:\relax\bin\shell.cmd
- select R14B04 unless you know what you are doing
- go to next section to compile Erlang/OTP
Alternatively, you can launch your own cmd prompt, and ensure that your system path is correct first in the win32 side before starting cygwin. Once in cygwin go to the root of where you installed erlang, and run the Erlang/OTP script:
eval `./otp_build env_win32`
echo $PATH | /bin/sed 's/:/\n/g'
which cl link mc lc mt nmake rc
Confirm that output of which
returns only MS versions from VC++ or the SDK.
This is critical and if not correct will cause confusing errors much later on.
Overall, the desired order for your $PATH is:
- Erlang build helper scripts
- Windows SDK tools, .Net framework
- Visual C++ if installed
- Ancillary Erlang and CouchDB packaging tools
- Usual cygwin unix tools such as make, gcc
- Ancillary glazier/relax tools for building dependent libraries
- Usual Windows folders
%windir%;%windir%\system32
etc - Various settings form the
otp_build
script
More details are at erlang INSTALL-Win32.md on github
cd .. && tar xzf /relax/bits/otp_src_R14B04.tar.gz
cd $ERL_TOP
cp /relax/SDK/Redist/VC/vcredist_x86.exe /cygdrive/c/werl/
cp /relax/SDK/Redist/VC/vcredist_x86.exe /cygdrive/c/relax/
echo "skipping gs" > lib/gs/SKIP
echo "skipping ic" > lib/ic/SKIP
echo "skipping jinterface" > lib/jinterface/SKIP
erl_config.sh && erl_build.sh
Spidermonkey needs to be compiled with the Mozilla Build chain. This
requires special and careful incantations. Launch your SDK prompt
again.
color
call c:\mozilla-build\start-msvc10.bat
which cl link
# /c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0/VC/Bin/cl.exe
# /c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0/VC/Bin/link.exe
export INCLUDE='c:\relax\SDK\include;c:\relax\VC\VC\Include;c:\relax\VC\VC\Include\Sys;'
export LIB='c:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Lib;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\lib;c:\mozilla-build\atlthunk_compat'
export PATH=/c/relax/SDK/Bin:/c/relax/VC/VC/bin:$PATH
which cl lc link mt rc make
# /c/relax/VC/VC/bin/cl.exe
# /c/relax/SDK/Bin/lc.exe
# /c/relax/VC/VC/bin/link.exe
# /c/relax/SDK/Bin/mt.exe
# /c/relax/SDK/Bin/rc.exe
# /usr/local/bin/make
cd /c/relax
tar xzf bits/js185-1.0.0.tar.gz
cd /c/relax/js-1.8.5/js/src
autoconf-2.13
./configure --enable-static --enable-shared-js --enable-debug --enable-debug-symbols
make
make check # optional, takes a while, check-date-format-tofte.js fails
exit
Note: the above PATH and LIB hacks are a workaround for having both VS2012 + SDK7.1 installed side by side. It seems that having both of these installed breaks compilation of js-185. If you're building with the SDK 7.1 alone this is not required.
start SDK prompt
, shell (4) for R14B04.
cd /relax && git clone http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git
git checkout --track origin/1.3.x ## or suitable tag here
git clean -fdx && git reset --hard
./bootstrap && couchdb_config.sh && couchdb_build.sh
This will produce a working CouchDB installation inside
$ERL_TOP/release/win32
that you can run directly, and also a full
installer inside $COUCH_TOP/etc/windows/
to transfer to other
systems, without the build chain dependencies.
Glazier prints out minimal instructions to transfer the logs and other files to a release directory of your choice. I typically use this when building from git to keep track of snapshots, and different erlang or couch build configurations.