Log of an installation of libexodus on Centos 5.3

Preparation

sudo su -

yum update
yum install postgresql-server
yum install postgresql-devel
yum install libicu-devel
yum install subversion
yum install gcc-c++

Boost version 1_38

(only 1_33 available by YUM)

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_38_0.tar.bz2?use_mirror=garr
tar xvf boost_1_38_0.tar.bz2
cd boost_1_38_0
./configure --with-libraries=date_time,filesystem,regex,system,thread
nano Makefile
... and append  -j4 variant=release link=shared  to BJAM_CONFIG=
make
make install

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 /usr/local/lib (nb with no preceding word include)
/sbin/ldconfig

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();
 }

g++ tester.cpp -lexodus-9.6 -lpq -I/usr/local/include/exodus -I/usr/local/include/exodus/exodus

./a.out

27 JUN 2009