OpenAM: how to compile 3.3.3 web agents on linux

par | Août 25, 2014 | Communauté, Gestion des Identités, SSO

Trying to build the web policy agents may be a little frustrating at times, especially because it is generally not that well documented. As part of the 3.3.3 agent release I had the joy of going through the build process of the Linux web agents, so here you go, here are the steps I’ve gone through to build the agents on a freshly installed CentOS 5.10 (32 & 64 bit). For the very keen, I’ve also aggregated all the commands into shell scripts, you can find them at the bottom of this post.

Thanks to Peter Major Blog : https://blogs.forgerock.org/petermajor/2014/08/how-to-compile-3-3-2-web-agents-on-linux/

Packages

On an out of the box CentOS 5.10 installation gcc is already installed, but there are some other components you should make sure you have installed before attempting to compile the agents:

  • subversion: To check out the source code of the agents.
  • ant: To perform the build, the agents are using Ant scripts to define the build steps.
  • zlib-devel: Compilation time dependency.
  • gcc-c++: C++ compiler.
  • rpm-build: RPM packages are being generated as part of the build process.
  • gcc44: Building NSS requires a newer GCC than the default one.
  • java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel: JDK to be able to build the agent installers (and run the Ant scripts).

The agent dependencies

The agents rely on the following external libraries:

  • NSS 3.16.3 & NSPR 4.10.6
    On 32 bit the component should be built with:

    make BUILD_OPT=1 NS_USE_GCC=1 NSS_ENABLE_ECC=1 NSDISTMODE="copy" CC="/usr/bin/gcc44 -Wl,-R,'\$\$ORIGIN/../lib' -Wl,-R,'\$\$ORIGIN'" nss_build_all

    On 64 bit the command is:

    make USE_64=1 BUILD_OPT=1 NS_USE_GCC=1 NSS_ENABLE_ECC=1 NSDISTMODE="copy" CC="/usr/bin/gcc44 -Wl,-R,'\$\$ORIGIN/../lib' -Wl,-R,'\$\$ORIGIN'" nss_build_all
  • PCRE 8.31
    On 32 bit:

    ./configure --with-pic --enable-newline-is-anycrlf --disable-cpp

    On 64 bit:

    CC="gcc -m64" CXX="g++ -m64" ./configure --with-pic --enable-newline-is-anycrlf --disable-cpp
  • libxml2 2.9.1
    On either platform:

    ./configure --prefix=/opt/libxml2 --with-threads --with-pic --without-iconv --without-python --without-readline
  • The header files of various web containers

Once all the libraries are in place, you can run the build on 32 bit:

ant nightly

on 64 bit:

ant nightly -Dbuild.type=64
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