This section describes how to install the CLN package on your system.
To build CLN, you need a C++ compiler.
Actually, you need GNU g++ 2.7.0 or newer.
On HPPA, you need GNU g++ 2.8.0 or newer.
I recommend GNU g++ 2.95 or newer.
The following C++ features are used: classes, member functions, overloading of functions and operators, constructors and destructors, inline, const, multiple inheritance, templates.
The following C++ features are not used:
new, delete, virtual inheritance,
exceptions.
CLN relies on semi-automatic ordering of initializations of static and global variables, a feature which I could implement for GNU g++ only.
To build CLN, you also need to have GNU make installed.
To build CLN on HP-UX, you also need to have GNU sed installed.
This is because the libtool script, which creates the CLN library, relies
on sed, and the vendor's sed utility on these systems is too
limited.
As with any autoconfiguring GNU software, installation is as easy as this:
$ ./configure $ make $ make check
If on your system, `make' is not GNU make, you have to use
`gmake' instead of `make' above.
The configure command checks out some features of your system and
C++ compiler and builds the Makefiles. The make command
builds the library. This step may take 4 hours on an average workstation.
The make check runs some test to check that no important subroutine
has been miscompiled.
The configure command accepts options. To get a summary of them, try
$ ./configure --help
Some of the options are explained in detail in the `INSTALL.generic' file.
You can specify the C compiler, the C++ compiler and their options through
the following environment variables when running configure:
CC
CFLAGS
CXX
CXXFLAGS
Examples:
$ CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-O" CXX="g++" CXXFLAGS="-O" ./configure $ CC="gcc -V 2.7.2" CFLAGS="-O -g" \ CXX="g++ -V 2.7.2" CXXFLAGS="-O -g" ./configure $ CC="gcc -V 2.8.1" CFLAGS="-O -fno-exceptions" \ CXX="g++ -V 2.8.1" CXXFLAGS="-O -fno-exceptions" ./configure $ CC="gcc -V egcs-2.91.60" CFLAGS="-O2 -fno-exceptions" \ CXX="g++ -V egcs-2.91.60" CFLAGS="-O2 -fno-exceptions" ./configure
Note that for these environment variables to take effect, you have to set
them (assuming a Bourne-compatible shell) on the same line as the
configure command. If you made the settings in earlier shell
commands, you have to export the environment variables before
calling configure. In a csh shell, you have to use the
`setenv' command for setting each of the environment variables.
On Linux, g++ needs 15 MB to compile the tests. So you should better
have 17 MB swap space and 1 MB room in $TMPDIR.
If you use g++ version 2.7.x, don't add `-O2' to the CXXFLAGS,
because `g++ -O' generates better code for CLN than `g++ -O2'.
If you use g++ version 2.8.x or egcs-2.91.x (a.k.a. egcs-1.1) or
gcc-2.95.x, I recommend adding `-fno-exceptions' to the CXXFLAGS.
This will likely generate better code.
If you use g++ version egcs-2.91.x (egcs-1.1) or gcc-2.95.x on Sparc,
add either `-O', `-O1' or `-O2 -fno-schedule-insns' to the
CXXFLAGS. With full `-O2', g++ miscompiles the division routines.
Also, if you have g++ version egcs-1.1.1 or older on Sparc, you must
specify `--disable-shared' because g++ would miscompile parts of
the library.
By default, both a shared and a static library are built. You can build
CLN as a static (or shared) library only, by calling configure with
the option `--disable-shared' (or `--disable-static'). While
shared libraries are usually more convenient to use, they may not work
on all architectures. Try disabling them if you run into linker
problems. Also, they are generally somewhat slower than static
libraries so runtime-critical applications should be linked statically.
Starting with version 1.1, CLN may be configured to make use of a
preinstalled gmp library. Please make sure that you have at
least gmp version 3.0 installed since earlier versions are
unsupported and likely not to work. Enabling this feature by calling
configure with the option `--with-gmp' is known to be quite
a boost for CLN's performance.
If you have installed the gmp library and its header file in
some place where your compiler cannot find it by default, you must help
configure by setting CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS. Here is
an example:
$ CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-O2" CXX="g++" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fno-exceptions" \ CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/gmp/include" LDFLAGS="-L/opt/gmp/lib" ./configure --with-gmp
As with any autoconfiguring GNU software, installation is as easy as this:
$ make install
The `make install' command installs the library and the include files
into public places (`/usr/local/lib/' and `/usr/local/include/',
if you haven't specified a --prefix option to configure).
This step may require superuser privileges.
If you have already built the library and wish to install it, but didn't
specify --prefix=... at configure time, just re-run
configure, giving it the same options as the first time, plus
the --prefix=... option.
You can remove system-dependent files generated by make through
$ make clean
You can remove all files generated by make, thus reverting to a
virgin distribution of CLN, through
$ make distclean
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