How to build CppCMS 1.x.x

• Requirements
• • Mandatory Requirements
  • Recommended Dependencies
  • Suggested
  • Dependencies for Common Linux Distributions
  • Notes for Microsoft Visual C++ users
• Getting The Sources
• Build Process
• Build Options
• Examples
• • POSIX Operating Systems
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Cross Compiling

Requirements

In order to build CppCMS you need:

Mandatory Requirements

• Modern C++ Compiler -- GCC, MSVC 9, Intel. See supported compilers and platforms
• CMake 2.6 and above, 2.8.x is recommended.
• Zlib library
• PCRE library.
• Python >=2.4 (but not 3)

Recommended Dependencies

• ICU Library 3.6 and above -- support of advanced localization features.

• gcrypt or OpenSSL library -- for support of encrypted session cookies.

  If both available gcrypt would be used.

Suggested

• iconv library (if libc does not provide iconv interface)

Dependencies for Common Linux Distributions

Debian Based (Debian, Ubuntu):

Packages: cmake libpcre3-dev zlib1g-dev libgcrypt11-dev libicu-dev python

Getting:

RPM Based (RadHat, CentOS, Fedora, Suse):

Packages: cmake gcc-c++ gcc make zlib-devel pcre-devel libicu-devel libgcrypt-devel

Getting:

Notes for Microsoft Visual C++ users

Building cppcms with Visual Studio projects is not supported due to complexity of debug and release mode.

You should use nmake as shown in the example.

Getting The Sources

Download the latest cppcms-1.x.x.tar.bz2 from sourceforge and extract it:

If you want to get latest version You need git to get the sources:

Build Process

Go to the cppcms directory you created and create build directory and go to it:

Now configure the library with CMake

Or

Then run

Build Options

• -DDISABLE_STATIC=ON -- disable building of static version of cppcms library
• -DDISABLE_SHARED=ON -- disable building of shared version of cppcms library
• -DDISABLE_ICONV=ON -- disable usage of iconv (ICU would be used instead)
• -DDISABLE_GCRYPT=ON -- disable usage of gcrypt library.
• -DDISABLE_OPENSSL=ON -- disable usage of OpenSSL.
• -DUSE_WINDOWS6_API=ON -- use Windows Vista, Windows 7 API if possible, allows CppCMS using native Windows Vista/7 conditional variables and other advanced API. By default disabled.
• -DLIBDIR=lib64 - use alternative name for library directory, for example use lib64 on Red Hat based distributions.

Generic Size Optimization Options for Embedded Builds:

• -DDISABLE_FCGI=ON -- build without FastCGI Server API.
• -DDISABLE_SCGI=ON -- build without SCGI Server API.
• -DDISABLE_HTTP=ON -- build without internal HTTP server.
• -DDISABLE_ICU_LOCALE=ON -- do not use ICU for localization but rather C++ std::locale, Windows API or POSIX API based localization -- many localization features would not be available, but it may be useful for embedded builds.
• -DDISABLE_PREFORK_CACHE=ON - disable cache support for preforking modes (process shared cache)
• -DDISABLE_TCPCACHE=ON - disable distributed cache support (memcached-like solution support)
• -DDISABLE_CACHE=ON - disable caching system at all.
• -DDISABLE_GZIP=ON - disable output gzip compression support (eliminates dependency on zlib)

Generic useful CMake options:

• -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=(Debug|Release|RelWithDebInfo|MinSizeRel) -- release type. RelWithDebInfo is default, unless using MSVC where Debug is default.

• -DCMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/path/to/include -- path to location of libraries headers, provide it in order to find libraries headers installed in non-standard locations. You almost always need to provide it under Windows.

• -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/lib -- path to location of libraries, provide it in order to find libraries installed in non-standard locations. You almost always need to provide it under Windows.
• -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -- Installation prefix (similar to autoconf --prefix). Defaults to /usr/local

Examples

POSIX Operating Systems

I assume that you are in a terminal in the build directory inside the CppCMS source directory.

Build under Linux, FreeBSD and Cygwin:

Build under OpenSolaris with SunStudio

Build under OpenSolaris with GCC, where ICU installed in /opt/icu

Microsoft Windows

We assume that 3rd part libraries installed in c:\3rd_part and sources are placed ind:\projects\cppcms

Note: You need to setup correct PATH variables in order to let system find all DLLs it needs.

Under cmd.exe:

Under bash:

MinGW Builds:

For mingw builds you also need to pass a path to the mingw's library directory, otherwise it may not find winsock library correctly. Assuming you have mingw installed in c:\mingw

Open MinGW Shell terminal

MSVC Builds:

Open MSVC Shell terminal (All Programs > Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 > Visual Studio Tools > Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt)

Cross Compiling

The build is just ordinary CMake cross-compilation procedure. For more information readhttp://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling

We would provide an example for ARM under Linux, without ICU.

Create ToolChain.cmake

Configure