Building

Supported Platforms

The driver is known to work on CentOS/RHEL 5/6/7, Mac OS X 10.8/10.9 (Mavericks and Yosemite), Ubuntu 12.04/14.04 LTS, and Windows 7 SP1.

It has been built using GCC 4.1.2+, Clang 3.4+, and MSVC 2010/2012/2013.

Dependencies

Driver

NOTE: Utilizing the default package manager configuration to install dependencies on *nix based operating systems may result in older versions of dependencies being installed.

Test Dependencies

Linux/OS X

The driver has been built using both Clang (Ubuntu 12.04/14.04 and OS X) and GCC (Linux).

Obtaining Dependencies

CentOS/RHEL

Additional Requirements for CentOS/RHEL 5

CentOS/RHEL 5 does not contain git in its repositories; however RepoForge (formerly RPMforge) has a RPM for this dependency. It can be found here.

Download the Appropriate RepoForge Release Package
Install Key and RPM Package 
sudo rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
sudo rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
Dependencies and libuv Installation 
sudo yum install automake cmake gcc-c++ git libtool openssl-devel wget
pushd /tmp
wget http://libuv.org/dist/v1.4.2/libuv-v1.4.2.tar.gz
tar xzf libuv-v1.4.2.tar.gz
pushd libuv-v1.4.2
sh autogen.sh
./configure
sudo make install
popd
popd

OS X

The driver has been built and tested using the Clang compiler provided by XCode 5.1+. The dependencies were obtained using Homebrew.

brew install libuv cmake

NOTE: The driver utilizes the OpenSSL library included with XCode.

Ubuntu

Additional Requirements for Ubuntu 12.04

Ubuntu 12.04 does not contain libuv in its repositories; however the LinuxJedi PPA has a backport from Ubuntu 14.04 which can be found here.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:linuxjedi/ppa
sudo apt-get update
GCC 
sudo apt-get install g++ make cmake libuv-dev libssl-dev
Clang 
sudo apt-get install clang make cmake libuv-dev libssl-dev

Building the Driver 

git clone https://github.com/datastax/cpp-driver.git
mkdir cpp-driver/build
cd cpp-driver/build
cmake ..
make

Test Dependencies and Building the Tests (NOT REQUIRED)

Obtaining Test Dependencies

CentOS/RHEL

CentOS/RHEL does not contain Boost v1.55+ libraries in its repositories; however these can be easily installed from source. Ensure previous version of Boost has been removed by executing the command sudo yum remove boost* before proceeding.

sudo yum install libssh2-devel
pushd /tmp
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.57.0/boost_1_57_0.tar.gz/download -O boost_1_57_0.tar.gz
tar xzf boost_1_57_0.tar.gz
pushd boost_1_57_0
./bootstrap.sh --with-libraries=atomic,chrono,date_time,log,program_options,random,regex,system,thread,test
sudo ./b2 cxxflags="-fPIC" install
popd
popd

NOTE: CentOS/RHEL 5 has known issues when compiling tests with GCC 4.1.2 as it is not a supported Boost compiler.

OS X 
brew install boost libssh2
Ubuntu
Additional Requirements for Ubuntu 12.04

Ubuntu 12.04 does not contain Boost v1.55+ C++ libraries in its repositories; however it can be obtained from the Boost PPA which can be found here.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:boost-latest/ppa
sudo apt-get update
Install Dependencies 
sudo apt-get install libboost1.55-all-dev libssh2-1-dev

Building the Driver with the Tests 

git clone https://github.com/datastax/cpp-driver.git
mkdir cpp-driver/build
cd cpp-driver/build
cmake -DCASS_BUILD_TESTS=ON ..
make

Windows

The driver has been built and tested using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, 2012 and 2013 (using the “Express” and Professional versions) and Windows SDK v7.1, 8.0, and 8.1 on Windows 7 SP1. The library dependencies will automatically download and build; however the following build dependencies will need to be installed.

Obtaining Build Dependencies

  • Download and install CMake.
    • Make sure to select the option “Add CMake to the system PATH for all users” or “Add CMake to the system PATH for current user”.
  • Download and install Git
    • Make sure to select the option “Use Git from Windows Command Prompt” or manually add the git executable to the system PATH.
  • Download and install ActiveState Perl
    • Make sure to select the option “Add Perl to PATH environment variable”.
    • NOTE: This build dependency is required if building with OpenSSL support
  • Download and install Python v2.7.x
    • Make sure to select/install the feature “Add python.exe to Path”

Building the Driver

A batch script has been created to detect installed versions of Visual Studio (and/or Windows SDK installations) to simplify the build process on Windows. If you have more than one version of Visual Studio (and/or Windows SDK) installed you will be prompted to select which version to use when compiling the driver.

First you will need to open a “Command Prompt” (or Windows SDK Command Prompt) to execute the batch script.

Usage: VC_BUILD.BAT [OPTION...]

    --DEBUG                           Enable debug build
    --RELEASE                         Enable release build (default)
    --DISABLE-CLEAN                   Disable clean build
    --TARGET-COMPILER [version]       120, 110, 100, or WINSDK
    --DISABLE-OPENSSL                 Disable OpenSSL support
    --ENABLE-EXAMPLES                 Enable example builds
    --ENABLE-PACKAGES [version]       Enable package generation (*)
    --ENABLE-TESTS [boost-root-dir]   Enable test builds
    --ENABLE-ZLIB                     Enable zlib
    --GENERATE-SOLUTION               Generate Visual Studio solution (**)
    --INSTALL-DIR [install-dir]       Override installation directory
    --SHARED                          Build shared library (default)
    --STATIC                          Build static library
    --X86                             Target 32-bit build (***)
    --X64                             Target 64-bit build (***)
    --USE-BOOST-ATOMIC                Use Boost atomic

    --HELP                            Display this message

*   Packages are only generated using detected installations of Visual Studio
**  Dependencies are built before generation of Visual Studio solution
*** Default target architecture is determined based on system architecture

To build 32-bit shared library:

VC_BUILD.BAT --X86

To build 64-bit shared library:

VC_BUILD.BAT --X64

To build using Boost atomic implementation:

VC_BUILD.BAT --USE-BOOST-ATOMIC

To build static library:

VC_BUILD.BAT --STATIC

To build examples:

VC_BUILD.BAT --ENABLE-EXAMPLES

To build library without OpenSSL support:

VC_BUILD.BAT --DISABLE-OPENSSL

To build 32-bit static library without OpenSSL support:

VC_BUILD.BAT --DISABLE-OPENSSL --STATIC --X86

To generate Visual Studio solution file:

VC_BUILD.BAT --GENERATE-SOLUTION

To use vc_build.bat for easy inclusion into a project:

VC_BUILD.BAT --TARGET-COMPILER 120 --INSTALL-DIR C:\myproject\dependencies\libs\cpp-driver

NOTE: When overriding installation directory using --INSTALL-DIR, the driver dependencies will also be copied (e.g. C:\myproject\dependencies\libs)

Test Dependencies and Building the Tests (NOT REQUIRED)

Obtaining Test Dependencies

Boost v1.55+ is the only external dependency that will need to be obtained in order to build the unit and integration tests.

To simplify the process; pre-built binaries can be obtained here. Ensure the proper Visual Studio (or Windows SDK) version and architecture is obtained and select from the following list:

NOTE: Ensure the Boost library directory structure is configured correctly by renaming the library directory to lib (e.g. lib64-msvc-12.0 to lib).

Building the Driver with the Tests 

VC_BUILD.BAT --STATIC --ENABLE-TESTS <ABSOLUTE-PATH-TO-BOOST>

[e.g. C:\local\boost_1_57_0]

NOTE: When enabling tests, –USE-BOOST-ATOMIC will use the Boost atomic implementation supplied by