Installing¶
Building rocksdb¶
Briefly describes how to build rocksdb under an ordinary debian/ubuntu. For more details consider https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/INSTALL.md
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install libsnappy-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libgflags-dev
git clone https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git
cd rocksdb
make shared_lib
Systemwide rocksdb¶
The following command installs the shared library in /usr/lib/
and the
header files in /usr/include/rocksdb/
:
make install-shared INSTALL_PATH=/usr
To uninstall use:
make uninstall INSTALL_PATH=/usr
Local rocksdb¶
If you don’t like the system wide installation, or you don’t have the permissions, it is possible to set the following environment variables. These varialbes are picked up by the compiler, linker and loader
export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=${CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH}:`pwd`/include
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:`pwd`
export LIBRARY_PATH=${LIBRARY_PATH}:`pwd`
Building pyrocksdb¶
apt-get install python-virtualenv python-dev
virtualenv pyrocks_test
cd pyrocks_test
. bin/active
pip install "Cython>=0.20"
pip install git+git://github.com/stephan-hof/pyrocksdb.git