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GNU Autoconf support is available in the ACE and ACE+TAO distributions
in the DOC group website. Support for Autoconf is not included in
distributions that contain CIAO.
GNU Autoconf support has been partially present in a number of ACE
versions. However, ACE 5.4 was the first version that supported it in
earnest. The range of platforms on which GNU autoconf support is regularly
tested is not as broad as for the traditional configuration method, so you
should be careful to test the resulting ACE library before using it in
your applications. You can review the
build scoreboard to check the currently tested set of autoconfigured
platforms (look for autoconf in the platform name).
Any help you can lend to improve the ACE build process using GNU Autoconf
would be very much appreciated. Please send any fixes to the
ACE users mailing list
using the standard PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM.
The kit has been bootstrapped so you do not need to install the GNU
Autotools (autoconf, automake, libtool) unless you want to participate
in testing and developing this
process further or if you are working directly off of sources in the
ACE subversion repository. To simply configure and build ACE, do:
cd to the top-level ACE_wrappers directory.- Create a subdirectory to hold your build's configuration and built
ACE version, and then change to the new directory:
mkdir build
cd build
Note that you do not run the create_ace_build.pl utility
mentioned in the Cloning the Source Tree
section. The configure script takes care of creating all files
and links that are needed.
- Configure ACE for your platform by issuing the following command:
../configure [options]
options can be a variable setting (such as setting
CXX to your C++ compiler command) any standard GNU
configure options, or any of the following ACE configure options
(default values are in parentheses):
--enable-alloca (no): Enable alloca()
support.--enable-debug (yes): Build ACE with debugging
support.--enable-exceptions (yes): Build ACE with C++
exception support compiled in.--enable-fast (no): Use the Sun C++ -fast
option to build. Only used on Solaris.--enable-ipv4-ipv6 (no): Enable IPv4/IPv6 migration support.--enable-ipv6 (no): Enable IPv6 support.--enable-inline (yes): Enable inline functions.--enable-optimize (yes): Enable building optimized.--enable-prof (no): Enable profiling support.--enable-purify (no): Build with support for
IBM Rational Purify.--enable-quantify (no): Build with support for
IBM Rational Quantify.--enable-repo (no): Enable the GNU g++
-frepo option. Only useful for pre-3.0 g++.--enable-stdcpplib (yes): Build with support for the
standard C++ library, as opposed to the older iostreams library.--enable-log-msg-prop (yes): Enable
ACE_Log_Msg property propagation to ACE-created
threads.--enable-logging (yes): Enable the ACE logging
macros.--enable-malloc-stats (no): Compile in additional code
for collecting memory allocation statistics.--enable-pi-pointers (yes): Enable
position-independent pointers for shared memory classes.--enable-probe (no): Enable the
ACE_Timeprobe class.--enable-reentrant (yes): Enable use of platform's
reentrant functions.--enable-static-obj-mgr (yes): Enable use of a
static ACE_Object_Manager.--enable-threads (yes): Enable threading support.--enable-verb-not-sup (no): Enable verbose ENOTSUP
reports at run time.--enable-trace (no): Enable ACE execution tracing
support.--enable-fl-reactor (no): Enable support for the
ACE_FlReactor class.--enable-qt-reactor (no): Enable support for the
ACE_QtReactor class.--enable-tk-reactor (no): Enable support for the
ACE_TkReactor class.--enable-xt-reactor (no): Enable support for the
ACE_XtReactor class.--enable-gperf (yes): Build the implementation of
gperf that comes with ACE.--enable-qos (no): Include the ACE_QoS library when
building ACE.--enable-ssl (yes): Include the ACE_SSL library when
building ACE. Requires the SSL components to be available using the
compiler's and linker's default search directories.--with-openssl: Specifies the root directory of the
OpenSSL installation; expects the specified directory to have
include and lib subdirectories. To
specify other locations for the header and libraries, use one or
both of the following.--with-openssl-include: Specify the directory
containing the OpenSSL header files.--with-openssl-libdir: Specify the directory
containing the OpenSSL libraries.--with-tli-device (/dev/tcp): Specifies the device
name for opening a TLI device at run time.
- Build ACE by typing
make.
- (Optional) Install ACE by typing
make install.
In order to test and develop the GNU Autotool support in ACE or
bootstrap autotool support into ACE when working directly off of ACE
sources in the subversion repository, you must have recent versions of GNU
Autoconf, Automake and Libtool installed on your host. Once
installed, autotool support may be bootstrapped into your workspace by
doing the following:
cd ACE_wrappers
./bin/bootstrap
After doing so, you will be able to run the configure
script.
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