Log of an installation of libexodus on Centos 5.3

Preparation

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

Exodus

(pgexodus, which allows "sort/select/index by", isnt included in this quick install)

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

ln -s /usr/include /usr/include/postgresql

./configure
make
make install

nano /etc/ld.so.conf

... and add the following line (nb with no preceding word include)

/usr/local/lib

register the new libraries

/sbin/ldconfig

make a pointer to the include files

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-9.6 -I/usr/local/include/exodus

./a.out

27 JUN 2009
27 JUN 2009