IRRToolSet Installation Guide

  1. Prerequisite Tools

The IRRToolSet requires a number of GNU tools to build, including make, gcc, flex, bison and libtool.

  1. Getting the Source

Releases can be found on the FTP site:

ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/IRRToolSet/

The latest IRRToolSet source can also be checked out from the Subversion repository:

svn co svn://irrtoolset.isc.org/

This will take several minutes to download. If you do not want all previous versions, you can download only the latest version by checking out the trunk:

svn co svn://irrtoolset.isc.org/trunk

  1. Building

The usual compilation steps should work: 

  ./configure
  make
  make install

Platform Specific Notes

irrtoolset was developed using libtool 2.2.6. If your system has libtool 1.5.6, then irrtoolset will work fine with the following commands: 

% svn co svn://irrtoolset.isc.org/trunk
...
% cd trunk
% libtoolize
% mkdir m4 
% cp /usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 m4/
% autoreconf -i
% ./configure
% make

Your local copy of libtool.m4 may not be in /usr/local/share/aclocal, so you might have to poke around your system with locate or find to figure out where it is.

Mac OS X

If you're developing on a Mac, then you need to use glibtoolize instead of libtoolize, assuming you have the macports tools installed.

Debian Lenny

You may want to install the libreadline5-dev package in order to get support for command-line editing.

Solaris

irrtoolset compiles correctly when using OpenCSW tools. You'll need to change your shell PATH variable to select the correct GCC version in /opt/csw; otherwise, both GCC and GNU ld will get very confused.

If you're using gcc4, then you will need to issue the following commands before running configure: 

$ export CXXFLAGS=-R/opt/csw/gcc4/lib
$ export CFLAGS=-R/opt/csw/gcc4/lib