This is for UNIX! A precompiled NT version of RRDtool is available from the download area

Before you start compiling RRDtool, make sure you have the following packages installed on your system:

• Perl 5.005

• GNU make

• GNU gcc

If you want to start hacking RRDtool, make sure you also have these:

• GNU autoconf

• GNU automake

• GNU libtool

Now you are ready to compile the code:

sh configure
make
make install

This will configure, compile and install RRDtool in /usr/local/rrdtool-VERSION.

If you prefer to install RRDtool in some other place, use:

sh configure --prefix=/some/other/RRDtool-dir

If you prefer to live with shared libraries, make sure you add the --enable-shared option to your configure call:

sh configure --enable-shared

The configure script will try to find your perl installation. If it does not find it, you can still build RRDtool but no perl modules will be generated.

By default the perl modules will be installed under the RRDtool install directory. This will require you to use a 'use lib' statement in your RRDtool perl programs. If you do not care what happens to your site-perl directory, you can also use:

make site-perl-install

will install the perl modules whereever you keep your local perl modules. Doing this reliefs you from using 'use lib' in your scripts.