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1Please see the latest Installation instructions on http://ariba-underlay.org/
2here: http://ariba-underlay.org/trac/spovnet-base/wiki/BaseInstall
3
4Please see also http://spovnet.de/ for further information
5about Ariba and its application.
6
7
8Prerequisites
9=============
10ariba depends on libraries that may not be installed on your system:
11
12 * Boost (version >=1.42)
13 * GMP
14 * CMake (version >=2.8)
15
16and optionally on
17
18 * Log4Cxx (version >= 0.10.0) for more sophisticated logging
19 * Avahi for more efficient bootstrapping in local networks
20 * LibBluetooth/Bluez for bluetooth support
21 * Doxygen to build the documentation
22
23Furthermore, you need default development tools - that are most likely already
24installed on your system - such as gcc/g++, libtool, liblt-dev ...
25
26
27Quick Install
28=============
29
30ariba currently builds on Linux systems. Our reference platform is Ubuntu 8.04
31with the g++ compiler version 4.1. However, latest Ubuntu releases should work
32too.
33
34Download the latest ariba package from the the download site
35http://ariba-underlay.org/downloads:
36
37Extract the archive and change into the project directory:
38> tar xfz ./ariba-x.x.x.tar.gz
39> cd ariba-x.x.x
40
41Alternatively, you could try to use the latest development code from our SVN
42trunk (attention: the code on trunk might break from time to time):
43> svn co https://svn.tm.kit.edu/SpoVNet-KA/entwicklung/ariba/trunk ariba-trunk
44> cd ariba-trunk
45
46Now create a directory to build ariba in:
47> mkdir build
48> cd build
49
50Next the makefiles have to be generated and the source compiled:
51> cmake ..
52> make
53
54HINT: you may use
55> make -j 2
56for a dual processor/core system to speed up the compilation,
57make -j 4 if you have quad-core respectively, and so on. If
58the compilation stops, try make without the -j option again.
59
60And finally ariba will be installed into the system:
61> make install
62
63
64Custom Build Options
65====================
66The build may be customized in various ways by setting CMake options. This can
67be done by giving them as arguments on the command line:
68> cmake .. -DOPTION=value
69
70by using the CMake GUI which lets you set the variables graphically:
71> cmake-gui ..
72
73or running cmake in interactive mode:
74> cmake -i ..
75
76The last two ways also give an overview which options exist.
77
78Important options:
79
80CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX - Where to install the compiled files. The default on Unix
81 platforms is /usr/local/. If you for example don't want
82 or can't install system wide, you can specify a directory
83 you have control over. The files will be installed to
84 "${prefix}/include/", "${prefix}/lib/" and so on.
85
86CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE - One of "", "Release", "Debug", "RelWithDebInfo" or
87 "MinSizeRel". This influences the build in various ways
88 (which compiler optimizations are turned on, whether
89 debug symbols are included, what warnings to show etc.).
90
91ENABLE_{AVAHI,BLUETOOTH,LOG4CXX}
92 - If set to OFF or 0 (ON is the default) it disables the
93 support of the feature even if the corresponding library
94 (see above) was detected to be present.
95
96<library>_INCLUDE_DIR - Where the directory containing the header files for
97 <library> is located. If the library is installed in the
98 usual system paths CMake should be able to automatically
99 find the right location. If the library is located
100 elsewhere (e.g. because you compiled it yourself in your
101 home directory) then you may need to set this variable
102 manually.
103
104<library>_LIBRARY - Where the library file (aka the .so, .a or .dll file) for
105 <library> is located. If the library is installed in the
106 usual system paths CMake should be able to automatically
107 find the right location. If the library is located
108 elsewhere (e.g. because you compiled it yourself in your
109 home directory) then you may need to set this variable
110 manually.
111
112DOCUMENTATION_GENERATE_GRAPHICS
113 - Whether the documentation should include graphics such as
114 inheritance and include graphs (OFF by default). This
115 might take a long time and consume a lot of space.
116
117CMAKE_{C,CXX}_COMPILER - Which C/C++ compiler to use
118CMAKE_{C,CXX}_FLAGS - Which additional flags to give to the compiler (e.g. -pg
119 for profiling support)
120
121
122Building the Documentation
123==========================
124To build the documentation once you can build the "docu" target:
125> make docu
126
127If you want to build the documentation on every build you can enable the
128ALWAYS_BUILD_DOCUMENTATION option in CMake.
129
130
131Running the PingPong Sample
132===========================
133The PingPong binary pingpong is installed in "${prefix}/lib/ariba/" or found
134directly in the build tree at "sample/pingpong/pingpong". It has one parameter,
135a configuration file. You can find sample configuration files in the
136"etc/pingpong" folder. If no configuration file is given, the node will randomly
137select its NodeID but will not find other nodes. This is because bootstrap
138modules are selected in the configuration file.
139> ./sample/pingpong/pingpong ../etc/pingpong/settings_node1.cnf
140
141When running the pingpong application it will output a large number of log
142messages and the initiator will wait for other nodes to join. You can start them
143using the configuration files settings_node1.cnf and settings_node2.cnf. You may
144need to adjust the configurations files: currently both node1 and node2 try to
145join the initiator on the local machine. This will only work if you start all
146instances on a local machine.
147
148Once the PingPong sample is running and the nodes have connected, each node will
149send out ping messages to every node he knows in the overlay structure every
1505 seconds. You can now e.g. test mobility of ariba and change the IP address of
151a node, or switch from LAN connection to WLAN. The links established by the
152PingPong sample through ariba are mobility invariant and automatically repaired.
153
154
155Cross-Compiling for Maemo
156=========================
157Ariba runs on Nokia Maemo 4 (tested) and probably Maemo 5. We have tested ariba
158on an N810 device. Cross-Compiling is done using Scratchbox. Use the
159preassembled Scratchbox version provided by Nokia which will install and
160configure the complete Scratchbox system automatically.
161
162If you compile for Maemo you have to set the HAVE_MAEMO option in CMake.
163
164Internally there are a number of special cases where handling on Maemo is
165different from normal Linux. If you require special handling, do the following
166in your code:
167
168#include "ariba/config.h"
169...
170#ifdef HAVE_MAEMO
171 // special Maemo handling
172#endif
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