Installation

Packages

Pre-built packages are available for CentOS 6/7/8, Ubuntu 14.04/16.04/18.04 and Windows 7 SP1 and above.

CentOS

Version URL
CentOS 6 http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/centos/6/dse
CentOS 7 http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/centos/7/dse
CentOS 8 http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/centos/8/dse

Dependencies

CentOS doesn’t have up-to-date versions of libuv so we provide current packages.

Version URL
CentOS 6 http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/centos/6/dependencies
CentOS 7 http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/centos/7/dependencies
CentOS 8 http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/centos/8/dependencies

To Install

Install dependencies:

yum install openssl krb5
rpm -Uvh libuv-<version>.rpm

Note: Replace <version> with the release version of the package.

Install the runtime library:

rpm -Uvh dse-cpp-driver-<version>.rpm

When developing against the driver you’ll also want to install the development package and the debug symbols.

rpm -Uvh dse-cpp-driver-devel-<version>.rpm
rpm -Uvh dse-cpp-driver-debuginfo-<version>.rpm

Ubuntu

Version URL
Ubuntu 14.04 http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/14.04/dse
Ubuntu 16.04 http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/16.04/dse
Ubuntu 18.04 http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/18.04/dse

Dependencies

Ubuntu doesn’t have up-to-date versions of libuv so we provide current packages.

Version URL
Ubuntu 14.04 http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/14.04/dependencies
Ubuntu 16.04 http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/16.04/dependencies
Ubuntu 18.04 http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/ubuntu/18.04/dependencies

To Install

Install dependencies:

apt-get install libssl libkrb5
dpkg -i libuv_<version>.deb

Note: Replace <version> with the release version of the package.

Install the runtime library:

dpkg -i dse-cpp-driver_<version>.deb

When developing against the driver you’ll also want to install the development package and the debug symbols.

dpkg -i dse-cpp-driver-dev_<version>.deb
dpkg -i dse-cpp-driver-dbg_<version>.deb

Windows

Version URL
Windows http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/windows/dse

Dependencies

We provide packages (.zip files) for all the dependencies (except for Kerberos) on Windows because they can be difficult to install/build.

Version URL
Windows http://downloads.datastax.com/cpp-driver/windows/dependencies

To Install

First, you will need to download and install Kerberos for Windows.

Unzip the packages (from http://downloads.datastax.com) and add the include and library directories to your project’s Additional Include Directories and Additional Dependencies configuration properties.

Building

If prebuilt packages are not available for your platform or architecture you will need to build the driver from source. Building and installing the C/C++ DataStax Enterprise Driver is similar to the core C/C++ driver. Directions for building and installing the core driver can be found here. In addition to the core driver’s dependencies the DSE driver also requires Kerberos:

  • Ubuntu requires the package libkrb5-dev
  • RHEL (CentOS) requires the package krb5-devel
  • Windows requires Kerberos for Windows to be installed