Log of an installation of libexodus on Centos 5.3

Preparation

sudo yum update
sudo yum install boost-devel postgresql-devel gcc-c++ subversion postgresql-server
sudo service postgresql start

Exodus

cd ~
mkdir exodus
cd exodus
svn co http://svn.neosys.com/svn/trunk
cd trunk/exodus

./configure
make
sudo make install

sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf

... and add the following line (note: NO preceding word include)

/usr/local/lib

register the new libraries

sudo /sbin/ldconfig

make a pointer to the include files

sudo ln -s /usr/local/include/exodus-9.6/exodus /usr/local/include/exodus 

Testing

nano tester.cpp

 #include <exodus/exodus.h>
 int main() {
	date().oconv("D").outputln();
	print(oconv(date(),"D"));
 }

g++ tester.cpp -lexodus -I/usr/local/include/exodus

./a.out

27 JUN 2009
27 JUN 2009