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From: Shawn McDermott <sgtmcd@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: static binary
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:22:40 -0600
To: user@couchdb.apache.org


On Mar 6, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Andrew Melo wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Shawn McDermott <sgtmcd@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>>=20
>>=20
>> On Mar 6, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Noah Slater wrote:
>>=20
>>> You don't need root access to install CouchDB.
>>=20
>> true, but to install all the dependencies(erlang) you do.
>=20
> Erlang and the other dependencies all have --prefix options in their
> configure scripts, so you can build and install them without needing
> root.
>=20
> best,
> Andrew
>=20
good point, but I wanted precompiled binaries that I could install =
without the user having to wait for compiling to finish.

>=20
>>>=20
>>> On 6 Mar 2010, at 17:30, Shawn McDermott wrote:
>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> On Mar 6, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Noah Slater wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>>> That's not really a binary though, is it?
>>>>>=20
>>>>> If you knew EXACTLY what system you wanted to roll-out to, you =
could tar up all of the files for Erlang, SpiderMonkey, the shared =
libraries, the CouchDB code, and all the supporting files. You could =
then untar that archive on the target server, and have a running CouchDB =
instance.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Why on earth you would want to do this, is beyond me.
>>>>=20
>>>> The reason I did it was to have an install that would not require =
root access.
>>>>=20
>>>>>=20
>>>>> On 6 Mar 2010, at 15:39, Shawn McDermott wrote:
>>>>>=20
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> On Mar 6, 2010, at 9:29 AM, km wrote:
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Noah Slater =
<nslater@tumbolia.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>> You cannot.
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> I have done it.......  what I had to do was compile erlang, =
libjs, and couchdb, create an installer (I used izpack) that installs =
all of that to a location, then using sed/awk scrapes all the files to =
the new install path.  It works but it is nasty!
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> Shawn
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> I dont know!
>>>>>>> I have just stumbled upon an option passed to the configure like =
this
>>>>>>> ./configure *--enable-static* =
--with-js-include=3D/path/to/js/include
>>>>>>> --with-js-lib=3D/path/to/js/lib
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> But I am really doubtful if  the final build includes  other =
dependencies
>>>>>>> like js libraries as well!
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> Krishna
>>>>>>> =
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>> There is no such thing as a static binary for CouchDB. It uses =
an
>>>>>>>> interpreted language, which means ed the interpreter, and the =
proper
>>>>>>>> bindings for the interpreter built it. You also need an =
external
>>>>>>>> SpiderMonkey, and such like.
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>> On 6 Mar 2010, at 12:05, km wrote:
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Noah Slater =
<nslater@tumbolia.org>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>> If you're on Ubuntu, why not install the package from the =
official
>>>>>>>>>> repositories?
>>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>> ya I already have 0.10 on ubuntu 9.10 from repositories.
>>>>>>>>> But that doesnt solve my probelm. I am trying to install =
couchdb 0.11
>>>>>>>>> (unreleased) from source and compile it for now.
>>>>>>>>> and I would like to know how i could change configure/make =
file to
>>>>>>>> generate
>>>>>>>>> a static binary for installation on other non-ubuntu systems.
>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>> regards,
>>>>>>>>> Krishna
>>>>>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>> On 6 Mar 2010, at 11:44, km wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>>> great! but how ?
>>>>>>>>>>> I am able to compile 0.11 on  ubuntu 9.10.
>>>>>>>>>>> So what changes are needed to compile a static binary; which =
includes
>>>>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>>>>>> dependencies ?
>>>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>>> regards,
>>>>>>>>>>> Krishna
>>>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Noah Slater =
<nslater@tumbolia.org>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>>>> Yep, you should be able to do this yourself from the source =
tarball.
>>>>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 6 Mar 2010, at 07:46, km wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Is it possible to make a static binary of the couchdb =
(upcoming
>>>>>>>> release
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0.11) ? so that i can distribute it on other systems which =
donot have
>>>>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the dependencies ?
>>>>>>>>>>>>> any ideas ?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>>>>> thanks & regards,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Krishna
>>>>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> --=20
> --
> Andrew Melo