Developer Build Instructions

This page explains how to build the MaidSafe-Transport project and details prerequisites to building the project.

Project Requirements

Essential

• CMake (minimum version 2.8.4) To build the project, CMake must be installed and in your path.
• MaidSafe-Common

Recommended, non-essential

• Python (maximum version 2.7.2) Allows a style checker to run.

Making and Installing MaidSafe-Transport

The project is best cloned to the same directory as was used for MaidSafe-Common, so e.g. you end up with /dev/MaidSafe-Common and /dev/MaidSafe-Transport. This isn't essential however.

If you are required to enter the path to the MaidSafe-Common install directory when running CMake, the default install path is a subdirectory of MaidSafe-Common named "installed".

Building on Linux

• Clone the repository git clone git@github.com:maidsafe/MaidSafe-Transport.git
• cd to build dir for Linux matching the build type required (build/Linux/Debug, build/Linux/Release, etc.)
• Run cmake ../../..
• Run make (this will make all). Other options:
  • Run make Experimental to configure, build, test and upload to our dashboard.
  • Run make package to create auto rpm or deb.
  • Run make install to install the MaidSafe-DHT library to /usr/lib and headers to /usr/include.

Building on Windows - MSVC

• Clone the repository git clone git@github.com:maidsafe/MaidSafe-Transport.git
• Open a Visual Studio command terminal and cd to build dir for Windows (build\Win_MSVC)
• Run cmake ..\.. This will create an MSVC solution build\Win_MSVC\maidsafe_transport.sln which will allow you to make all the targets from within the chosen MSVC IDE. Building the target Experimental will build the full test suite, run it and upload the results to our dashboard.