download and setup the source packages

Building the SMND package from source

Building and installing

The build process has been tested on Fedora 28 and CentOS 7 x84_64 GNU/Linux distributions, it is not supported on other distros/platforms at the moment.

If you wish to build all the software packages on your own, you should download a copy of the SMND source package (which does not include the real software sources, just the build system) in the releases section of the project or by cloning the github master branch, install the required list of dependencies, including the gcc compiler collection version >= 4.8 and the wget command, and run the following list of commands:

# untar (or unzip)
tar -zxvf vX.Y.tar.gz
cd smnd-X.Y
# download and setup the source packages
# (only missing sources are downloaded, wget must be configured to work)
install_from_source.sh -d
# build all the packages and install in $PREFIX (takes a long time)
PREFIX=$HOME/smnd_install install_from_source.sh -b

If you are lucky, at this point you have a working local installation in $PREFIX and a profile file installed in $HOME/smnd_profile, no other parts of the filesystem are touched; in order to run any command of the SMND collection, you have to preliminary source the profile once with . $HOME/smnd_profile in the working session.

At this point you can create a binary package for deployment on an analogous system with the command:

# make a binary package
PREFIX=$HOME/installdir install_from_source.sh -p

When you unpack the binary package on a different system or when you relocate an installation after a build, you have to run the install_from_bin.sh script located in the main installation directory in order to recreate the profile for the new or relocated installation.

Making an universal installation

If you wish to deploy an installation on a distribution different from the one where the software has been built, you can make the installation universal before creating the binary package:

# make the installation universal
PREFIX=$HOME/installdir install_from_source.sh -u
# make a binary package
PREFIX=$HOME/installdir install_from_source.sh -p

this will embed in the binary package all the shared libraries upon which the executables depend and create wrappers to executables where the environment is properly set up.

Making a source package

# make a source package
PREFIX=$HOME/installdir install_from_source.sh -s

Cleaning up

# remove build directories
install_from_source.sh -c
# remove source files
install_from_source.sh -l