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Compiling the source code

cmsmerge (Searchdaimon) edited this page Aug 29, 2013 · 1 revision

The basic steps to compiling the source code is to be loged in as the boitho user and cd to the /home/boitho/boithoTools/ folder. Then run make to make all or make [binary] to make a specific binary.

Compile all the ES source code:
make

More information is available at Overview of the code.

Building on non ESs

The ES uses many 3-party libraries for data conversion and connecting to data sources. This makes it hard to build on arbitrary systems. For this first release we have decided to only support building of the source code on an existing ES installation. The easiest is to get a virtual machine version running and use the exiting rpms to setup your development environment.

As our software become more widespread we plan to add support for other *nix environments also. The first step will probably be to start using a new CentOS version that has a life cycle of 10 years as the underlying operating system. Then slowly move to a user-space software only version.