building.md

Building MongoDB

SCONS

For detail information about building, please see the wiki.

If you want to build everything (mongod, mongo, tools, etc):

$ scons .

If you only want to build the database:

$ scons

To install

$ scons --prefix=/opt/mongo install

Please note that prebuilt binaries are available on mongodb.org and may be the easiest way to get started.

SCONS TARGETS

• mongod
• mongos
• mongo
• mongoclient
• all

COMPILER VERSIONS

Mongo has been tested with GCC 4.x and Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Older versions of GCC may not be happy.

WINDOWS

See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Building+for+Windows

Build requirements:

• vc++ express or visual studio
• python 2.5 (for scons - 2.6 might be needed for some regression tests)
• scons
• boost 1.35 (or higher)

Or download a prebuilt binary for Windows at www.mongodb.org.

UBUNTU

To install dependencies on Ubuntu systems:

# aptitude install scons build-essential
# aptitude install libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev

To run tests as well, you will need PyMongo:

# aptitude install python-pymongo

Then build as usual with scons:

$ scons all

OS X

Try Homebrew:

$ brew install mongodb

FREEBSD

Install the following ports:

• devel/boost
• devel/libexecinfo
• devel/pcre
• lang/spidermonkey

Special Build Notes

• debian etch on ec2
• open solaris on ec2