Building NiDB

Building NiDB on CentOS 8

Prerequisites

System packages – Install development tools as follows.

yum group install ‘Development Tools’
yum install cmake3

Qt – Qt 5.12.8 libraries and the corresponding MySQL driver are required to build NiDB. Preparing the Qt build environment is only needed once. Prepare the Qt build environment as follows.

  1. Download Qt open-source from https://www.qt.io/download-open-source
  2. Run chmod 777 qt-unified-linux-x64-x.x.x-online.run
  3. Run ./qt-unified-linux-x64-x.x.x-online.run to launch the installer
  4. An account with Qt is required to be able to install any of the Qt components, so create an account or login using your existing Qt account
  5. On the components screen, select the checkboxes for Qt 5.12.8 → Desktop gcc 64-bit and Sources. After installing Qt, note the location of qmake for use later in the build script. The default path to qmake should be ~/Qt/5.12.8/gcc_64/bin/qmake

MySQL/MariaDB driver for Qt  – After version 5.12.3, Qt stopped including binary SQL drivers, so this driver must be built manually. Run the following commands to build the mysql driver.

yum install mariadb-devel
cd ~/Qt/5.12.8/Src/qtbase/src/plugins/sqldrivers
~/Qt/5.12.8/gcc_64/bin/qmake sqldrivers.pro
make
make install

The libqsqlmysql.so file should be now be in ~/Qt/5.12.8/gcc_64/plugins/sqldrivers.

Build nidb executable

Make sure Qt 5.12.8 is installed and the MySQL driver is built! Perform the following commands to build NiDB. The qmake path argument to the build.sh is optional, it is only required if the path to qmake is not ~/Qt/5.12.8/gcc_64/bin/qmake. Run the following commands to build NiDB.

wget https://github.com/gbook/nidb/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv nidb-master nidb
cd ~/nidb
./build.sh /path/to/qmake #optional argument

NiDB binaries will be located in nidb/bin.

Build RPM

Prepare the general build environment described above.

Prepare the RPM build environment as follows.

yum install rpm-build
yum install rpmdevtools

Build the RPM file by performing the following commands. The rpmbuild command will create an rpmbuild directory in your home directory, and it is not possible to change the location of this created directory.

cd ~
rpmdev-setuptree
wget https://github.com/gbook/nidb/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv nidb-master/* rpmbuild/SOURCES/
cp rpmbuild/SOURCES/src/setup/nidb.el8.spec rpmbuild/SPECS/
cd rpmbuild/SPECS
QA_RPATHS=$((0x0002|0x0010)) rpmbuild -bb nidb.el8.spec

The built .rpm file should be ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/nidb-xxxx.x.xx-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

Building NiDB on CentOS 7

Prerequisites

System packages – Install development tools as follows. EPEL release is required for cmake3

yum install epel-release
yum group install ‘Development Tools’
yum install cmake3

Qt – Qt 5.12.8 libraries and the corresponding MySQL driver are required to build NiDB. Preparing the Qt build environment is only needed once. Prepare the Qt build environment as follows.

  1. Download Qt open-source from https://www.qt.io/download-open-source
  2. Run chmod 777 qt-unified-linux-x64-x.x.x-online.run
  3. Run ./qt-unified-linux-x64-x.x.x-online.run to launch the installer
  4. An account with Qt is required to be able to install any of the Qt components, so create an account or login using your existing Qt account
  5. On the components screen, select the checkboxes for Qt 5.12.8 → Desktop gcc 64-bit and Sources. After installing Qt, note the location of qmake for use later in the build script. The default path to qmake should be ~/Qt/5.12.8/gcc_64/bin/qmake

MySQL/MariaDB driver for Qt  – After version 5.12.3, Qt stopped including binary SQL drivers, so this driver must be built manually. There is a bug in the Makefile that adds unsupported warning flags, which must be removed to allow compilation. Run the following commands to build the mysql driver.

yum install mariadb-devel
cd ~/Qt/5.12.8/Src/qtbase/src/plugins/sqldrivers
~/Qt/5.12.8/gcc_64/bin/qmake sqldrivers.pro
gedit mysql/Makefile # remove the two instances of “-Wdate-time”
gedit sqlite/Makefile # remove the two instances of “-Wdate-time”
make
make install

The libqsqlmysql.so file should be now be in ~/Qt/5.12.8/gcc_64/plugins/sqldrivers.

Build nidb executable

Make sure Qt 5.12.8 is installed and the MySQL driver is built! Perform the following commands to build NiDB. The qmake path argument to the build.sh is optional, it is only required if the path to qmake is not ~/Qt/5.12.8/gcc_64/bin/qmake. Run the following commands to build NiDB.

wget https://github.com/gbook/nidb/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv nidb-master nidb
cd ~/nidb
./build.sh /path/to/qmake #optional argument

NiDB binaries will be located in nidb/bin.

Build RPM

Prepare the general build environment described above.

Prepare the RPM build environment as follows.

yum install rpm-build
yum install rpmdevtools

Build the RPM file by performing the following commands. The rpmbuild command will create an rpmbuild directory in your home directory, and it is not possible to change the location of this created directory.

cd ~
rpmdev-setuptree
wget https://github.com/gbook/nidb/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv nidb-master/* rpmbuild/SOURCES/
cp rpmbuild/SOURCES/src/setup/nidb.el8.spec rpmbuild/SPECS/
cd rpmbuild/SPECS
QA_RPATHS=$((0x0002|0x0010)) rpmbuild -bb nidb.el7.spec

The built .rpm file should be ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/nidb-xxxx.x.xx-1.el7.x86_64.rpm