Building and Installing Apache Celix

Apache Celix aims to be support a broad range of UNIX platforms.

Currently, the [continuous integration build server] builds and tests Apache Celix for:

• Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (20.04)
  • GCC
  • CLang
• OSX
  • CLang

Download the Apache Celix sources

To get started you first have to download the Apache Celix sources. This can be done by cloning the Apache Celix git repository:

#clone the repro
git clone --single-branch --branch master https://github.com/apache/celix.git

Building and installing

Apache Celix uses CMake as build system. CMake can generate (among others) makefiles.

Building and installing with preinstalled libraries

The following packages (libraries + headers) should be installed on your system:

• Development Environment
  • build-essentials (gcc/g++ or clang/clang++)
  • java or zip (for packaging bundles)
  • make (3.14 or higher)
  • git
• Apache Celix Dependencies
  • libzip
  • uuid
  • zlib
  • curl (only initialized in the Celix framework)
  • jansson (for serialization in libdfi)
  • libffi (for libdfi)
  • libxml2 (for remote services and bonjour shell)
  • rapidjson (for C++ remote service discovery)
  • libczmq (for PubSubAdmin ZMQ)

For Ubuntu 20.04, use the following commands:

#### get dependencies
sudo apt-get install -yq --no-install-recommends \
    build-essential \
    git \
    curl \
    uuid-dev \
    libjansson-dev \
    libcurl4-openssl-dev \
    default-jdk \
    libffi-dev \
    libzip-dev \
    libxml2-dev \
    libczmq-dev \
    libcpputest-dev \
    rapidjson-dev

#The cmake version for Ubuntu 20 is older than 3.14,
#use snap to install the latest cmake version
snap install cmake

For OSX systems with brew installed, use the following commands:

    brew update && \
    brew install lcov libffi libzip czmq rapidjson libxml2 cmake && \
    brew link --force libffi

Use CMake and make to build Apache Celix

cd celix
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo .. 
make -j

Editing Build options

With use of CMake, Apache Celix makes it possible to edit build options. This enabled users, among other options, to configure a install location and select additional bundles. To edit the options use ccmake or cmake-gui. For cmake-gui an additional package install can be necessary (Fedora: dnf install cmake-gui).

cd celix/build
ccmake .
#Edit options, e.g. enable BUILD_REMOTE_SHELL to build the remote (telnet) shell
#Edit the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX config to set the install location

For this guide we assume the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is /usr/local.

Installing Apache Celix

cd celix/build
make -j
sudo make install

Running Apache Celix

If Apache Celix is successfully installed running

celix

should give the following output: “Error: invalid or non-existing configuration file: ‘config.properties’.No such file or directory”.

For more info how to build your own projects and/or running the Apache Celix examples see Celix Intro.

Building etcdlib library standalone

#bash
git clone git@github.com:apache/celix.git
mkdir celix/build
cd celix/build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ../libs/etcdlib
make -j
sudo make install

Building Celix Promises library standalone

#bash
git clone git@github.com:apache/celix.git
mkdir celix/build
cd celix/build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ../libs/promises
make -j
sudo make install

Building Celix Push Streams library standalone

#bash
git clone git@github.com:apache/celix.git
mkdir celix/build
cd celix/build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ../libs/pushstreams
make -j
sudo make install