Package-Based Build on Fedora

This deprecated document describes how to build the CT software using RPM packaged versions of (most of) the software dependencies. This build method has been superceded by the recommended gclient-based method, which avoids the version incompatibility issues that affected this method.

Quickstart on Fedora 22

Note: This assumes a Workstation install for x64. The additional dependency packages that need to be installed may vary if you are starting with a different base system.

Packaged Dependencies

First, install those dependencies of the CT software (and the tools needed to build them) that are available as packages:

sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install cmake gcc-g++ libevent-devel golang autoconf pkgconfig \
    json-c-devel gflags-devel glog-devel protobuf-devel leveldb-devel \
    openssl-devel gperftools-devel protobuf-compiler sqlite-devel \
    python-gflags protobuf-python python-ecdsa python-mock python-httplib2 \
    git ldns-devel automake libtool shtool libunwind-devel

Unpackaged Dependencies

The gflags in Fedora is v2.1 and is using the new default namespace option of ‘gflags’ rather than ‘google’ so we need to build our own version.

git clone https://github.com/gflags/gflags.git
cd gflags
cmake -DGFLAGS_NAMESPACE:STRING=google \
    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING=-fPIC .
make
cd ..

Next, we need libevhtp version 1.2.10 which is not packaged in Fedora, so we build from source:

wget https://github.com/ellzey/libevhtp/archive/1.2.10.zip
unzip 1.2.10.zip
cd libevhtp-1.2.10/
cmake -DEVHTP_DISABLE_REGEX:STRING=ON -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING=-fPIC .
make
cd ..

And let's get our own Google Test / Google Mock as these vary in incompatible ways between packaged releases:

wget https://googlemock.googlecode.com/files/gmock-1.7.0.zip
unzip gmock-1.7.0.zip

CT Build

Now, clone the CT repo:

git clone https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency.git
cd certificate-transparency/

One-time setup for Go:

export GOPATH=$PWD/go
mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/google
ln -s $PWD $GOPATH/src/github.com/google
go get -v -d ./...

Build CT server C++ code:

./autogen.sh
./configure GTEST_DIR=../gmock-1.7.0/gtest GMOCK_DIR=../gmock-1.7.0 \
    CPPFLAGS="-I../libevhtp-1.2.10 -I../libevhtp-1.2.10/evthr \
    -I../libevhtp-1.2.10/htparse -I../gflags/include" \
    LDFLAGS=”-L../libevhtp-1.2.10 -L../gflags/lib”
make check

The remainder of the Go and Python steps should be very similar to those documented for Ubuntu.