Build Library

Building Release

The released sources contain a complete set of scripts that can build the library from scratch without any additional tools like autoconf/automake.

Usual call sequence:

• sh configure [--with-boost=alternative-path-to-boost] [--with-boost-unit-test-framework] [--disable-docs]
• make

Building Trunk

The library can also be built from a source repository snapshot.

Pre-requirements

• Autoconf >= 2.59
• Automake >= 1.9
• Libtool

Building
Snapshots do not contain the autoconf/automake infrastructure, so it will need to be re-established:

• autoreconf --install

Then follow the identical corresponding steps from the previous section:

• sh configure [--with-boost=alternative-path-to-boost] [--with-boost-unit-test-framework] [--disable-docs]
• make

Building Tests

Library tests are not built by default. To do so, run the configure script with the --with-unit-test-framework option and then use the make check command, which builds binaries into the tests/ directory.