Building from sources

Orion Context Broker reference distribution is CentOS 8.x. This doesn't mean that the broker cannot be built in other distributions (actually, it can). This section also includes indications on how to build in other distributions, just in the case it may help people that don't use CentOS. However, note that the only "officially supported" procedure is the one for CentOS 8.x; the others are provided "as is" and can get obsolete from time to time.

CentOS 8.x (officially supported)

The Orion Context Broker uses the following libraries as build dependencies:

  • boost: 1.66
  • libmicrohttpd: 0.9.70 (from source)
  • libcurl: 7.61.1
  • openssl: 1.1.1g
  • libuuid: 2.32.1
  • libmosquitto: 2.0.12 (from source)
  • Mongo C driver: 1.17.4 (from source)
  • rapidjson: 1.1.0 (from source)
  • gtest (only for make unit_test building target): 1.5 (from sources)
  • gmock (only for make unit_test building target): 1.5 (from sources)

The basic procedure is as follows (assuming you don't run commands as root, we use sudo for those commands that require root privilege):

  • Install the needed building tools (compiler, etc.).

    sudo yum install make cmake gcc-c++

  • Install the required libraries (except what needs to be taken from source, described in following steps).

    sudo yum install boost-devel libcurl-devel gnutls-devel libgcrypt-devel openssl-devel libuuid-devel cyrus-sasl-devel

  • Install the Mongo Driver from source.

    wget https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver/releases/download/1.17.4/mongo-c-driver-1.17.4.tar.gz
tar xfvz mongo-c-driver-1.17.4.tar.gz
cd mongo-c-driver-1.17.4
mkdir cmake-build
cd cmake-build
cmake -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF ..
make
sudo make install

  • Install rapidjson from sources:

    wget https://github.com/miloyip/rapidjson/archive/v1.1.0.tar.gz
tar xfvz v1.1.0.tar.gz
sudo mv rapidjson-1.1.0/include/rapidjson/ /usr/local/include

  • Install libmicrohttpd from sources (the ./configure command below shows the recommended build configuration to get minimum library footprint, but if you are an advanced user, you can configure as you prefer)

    wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libmicrohttpd/libmicrohttpd-0.9.70.tar.gz
tar xvf libmicrohttpd-0.9.70.tar.gz
cd libmicrohttpd-0.9.70
./configure --disable-messages --disable-postprocessor --disable-dauth
make
sudo make install  # installation puts .h files in /usr/local/include and library in /usr/local/lib
sudo ldconfig      # just in case... it doesn't hurt :)

  • Install mosquitto from sources (appart from changing WITH_CJSON, WITH_STATIC_LIBRARIES and WITH_SHARED_LIBRARIES settings, config.mk file under mosquitto-2.0.12/ can be modified to fine tune the build)

    wget http://mosquitto.org/files/source/mosquitto-2.0.12.tar.gz
tar xvf mosquitto-2.0.12.tar.gz
cd mosquitto-2.0.12
sed -i 's/WITH_CJSON:=yes/WITH_CJSON:=no/g' config.mk
sed -i 's/WITH_STATIC_LIBRARIES:=no/WITH_STATIC_LIBRARIES:=yes/g' config.mk
sed -i 's/WITH_SHARED_LIBRARIES:=yes/WITH_SHARED_LIBRARIES:=no/g' config.mk
make
sudo make install  # installation puts .h files in /usr/local/include and library in /usr/local/lib
sudo ldconfig      # Update /etc/ld.so.cache with the new library files in /usr/local/lib

  • Get the code (alternatively you can download it using a zipped version or a different URL pattern, e.g git clone git@github.com:telefonicaid/fiware-orion.git):

    sudo yum install git
git clone https://github.com/telefonicaid/fiware-orion

  • Build the source:

    cd fiware-orion
make

  • (Optional but highly recommended) run unit test and functional tests. More on this on its specific section below.

  • Install the binary. You can use INSTALL_DIR to set the installation prefix path (default is /usr), thus the broker is installed in $INSTALL_DIR/bin directory.

    sudo make install INSTALL_DIR=/usr

  • Check that everything is ok, invoking the broker version message:

    contextBroker --version

Testing, coverage and RPM

The Orion Context Broker comes with a suite of unit, valgrind and end-to-end tests that you can also run, following the following procedure (optional but highly recommended):

  • Install Google Test/Mock from sources (there are RPM packages for this, but they do not work with the current CMakeLists.txt configuration). Previously the URL was http://googlemock.googlecode.com/files/gmock-1.5.0.tar.bz2 but Google removed that package in late August 2016 and it is no longer working.
    sudo yum install python2
wget https://nexus.lab.fiware.org/repository/raw/public/storage/gmock-1.5.0.tar.bz2
tar xfvj gmock-1.5.0.tar.bz2
cd gmock-1.5.0
./configure
sed -i 's/env python/env python2/' gtest/scripts/fuse_gtest_files.py  # little hack to make installation to work on CentOS 8
make
sudo make install  # installation puts .h files in /usr/local/include and library in /usr/local/lib
sudo ldconfig      # just in case... it doesn't hurt :)

In the case of the aarch64 architecture, install libxslt using yum, and run ./configure with --build=arm-linux option.

  • Install MongoDB (tests rely on mongod running in localhost). Check the official MongoDB documentation for details. Recommended version is 4.4 (it may work with previous versions, but we don't recommend it).

  • Run unit test

    make unit_test

  • Install additional required tools for functional and valgrind tests:

    sudo yum install curl nc valgrind bc
sudo pip2 install virtualenv

In the case of the aarch64 architecture, additionally install python2-devel, rpm-build and libffi-devel using yum. It is needed when building pyOpenSSL.

  • Prepare the environment for test harness. Basically, you have to install the accumulator-server.py script and in a path under your control, ~/bin is the recommended one. Alternatively, you can install them in a system directory such as /usr/bin but it could collide with an RPM installation, thus it is not recommended. In addition, you have to set several environment variables used by the harness script (see scripts/testEnv.sh file) and create a virtualenv environment with the required Python packages.

    mkdir ~/bin
export PATH=~/bin:$PATH
make install_scripts INSTALL_DIR=~
. scripts/testEnv.sh
virtualenv /opt/ft_env --python=/usr/bin/python2
. /opt/ft_env/bin/activate
pip install Flask==1.0.2 pyOpenSSL==19.0.0 paho-mqtt==1.5.1

  • Run test harness in this environment (it takes some time, please be patient).

    make functional_test INSTALL_DIR=~

  • Once passed all the functional tests, you can run the valgrind tests (this will take longer than the functional tests, arm yourself with a lot of patience):

    make valgrind INSTALL_DIR=~

You can generate coverage reports for the Orion Context Broker using the following procedure (optional):

  • Install the lcov tool

    # Download .rpm file from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ltp/lcov-1.14-1.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install lcov-1.14-1.noarch.rpm

  • Do first a successful pass for unit_test and functional_test, to check that everything is ok (see above)

  • Run coverage

    make coverage INSTALL_DIR=~

You can generate the RPM for the source code (optional):

  • Install the required tools

    sudo yum install rpm-build

  • Generate the RPM

    make rpm

  • The generated RPMs are placed in directory ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

This instruction is how to build the Orion Context Broker for the x86_64 or the aarch64 architecture on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. And it includes the instruction to build MongoDB 4.4 that the Orion depends on. The Orion Context Broker uses the following libraries as build dependencies:

  • boost: 1.71.0
  • libmicrohttpd: 0.9.70 (from source)
  • libcurl: 7.68.0
  • openssl: 1.1.1f
  • libuuid: 2.34-0.1
  • libmosquitto: 2.0.12 (from source)
  • Mongo C driver: 1.17.4 (from source)
  • rapidjson: 1.1.0 (from source)
  • gtest (only for make unit_test building target): 1.5 (from sources)
  • gmock (only for make unit_test building target): 1.5 (from sources)

The basic procedure is as follows (assuming you don't run commands as root, we use sudo for those commands that require root privilege):

  • Install the needed building tools (compiler, etc.).

    sudo apt install build-essential cmake

  • Install the required libraries (except what needs to be taken from source, described in following steps).

    sudo apt install libboost-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-filesystem-dev \
                 libcurl4-gnutls-dev gnutls-dev libgcrypt-dev libssl-dev uuid-dev libsasl2-dev

  • Install the Mongo Driver from source.

    wget https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver/releases/download/1.17.4/mongo-c-driver-1.17.4.tar.gz 
tar xfvz mongo-c-driver-1.17.4.tar.gz 
cd mongo-c-driver-1.17.4 
mkdir cmake-build 
cd cmake-build 
cmake -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF .. 
make 
make install

  • Install rapidjson from sources:

    wget https://github.com/miloyip/rapidjson/archive/v1.1.0.tar.gz
tar xfvz v1.1.0.tar.gz
sudo mv rapidjson-1.1.0/include/rapidjson/ /usr/local/include

  • Install libmicrohttpd from sources (the ./configure command below shows the recommended build configuration to get minimum library footprint, but if you are an advanced user, you can configure as you prefer)

    wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libmicrohttpd/libmicrohttpd-0.9.70.tar.gz
tar xvf libmicrohttpd-0.9.70.tar.gz
cd libmicrohttpd-0.9.70
./configure --disable-messages --disable-postprocessor --disable-dauth
make
sudo make install  # installation puts .h files in /usr/local/include and library in /usr/local/lib
sudo ldconfig      # just in case... it doesn't hurt :)

  • Install mosquitto from sources (appart from changing WITH_CJSON, WITH_STATIC_LIBRARIES and WITH_SHARED_LIBRARIES settings, config.mk file under mosquitto-2.0.12/ can be modified to fine tune the build)

    wget http://mosquitto.org/files/source/mosquitto-2.0.12.tar.gz
tar xvf mosquitto-2.0.12.tar.gz
cd mosquitto-2.0.12
sed -i 's/WITH_CJSON:=yes/WITH_CJSON:=no/g' config.mk
sed -i 's/WITH_STATIC_LIBRARIES:=no/WITH_STATIC_LIBRARIES:=yes/g' config.mk
sed -i 's/WITH_SHARED_LIBRARIES:=yes/WITH_SHARED_LIBRARIES:=no/g' config.mk
make
sudo make install  # installation puts .h files in /usr/local/include and library in /usr/local/lib
sudo ldconfig      # Update /etc/ld.so.cache with the new library files in /usr/local/lib

  • Get the code (alternatively you can download it using a zipped version or a different URL pattern, e.g git clone git@github.com:telefonicaid/fiware-orion.git):

    sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/telefonicaid/fiware-orion

  • Build the source:

    cd fiware-orion
make

  • (Optional but highly recommended) run unit test and functional tests. More on this on its specific section below.

  • Install the binary. You can use INSTALL_DIR to set the installation prefix path (default is /usr), thus the broker is installed in $INSTALL_DIR/bin directory.

    sudo make install INSTALL_DIR=/usr

  • Check that everything is ok, invoking the broker version message:

    contextBroker --version

Testing and coverage

The Orion Context Broker comes with a suite of functional, valgrind and end-to-end tests that you can also run, following the following procedure (optional):

  • Install Google Test/Mock from sources (there are RPM packages for this, but they do not work with the current CMakeLists.txt configuration). Previously the URL was http://googlemock.googlecode.com/files/gmock-1.5.0.tar.bz2 but Google removed that package in late August 2016 and it is no longer working.
    apt install python-is-python2 xsltproc
wget https://nexus.lab.fiware.org/repository/raw/public/storage/gmock-1.5.0.tar.bz2
tar xfvj gmock-1.5.0.tar.bz2
cd gmock-1.5.0
./configure
make
sudo make install  # installation puts .h files in /usr/local/include and library in /usr/local/lib
sudo ldconfig      # just in case... it doesn't hurt :)

In the case of the aarch64 architecture, run ./configure with --build=arm-linux option.

  • Install MongoDB (tests rely on mongod running in localhost). Check the official MongoDB documentation for details. Recommended version is 4.4 (it may work with previous versions, but we don't recommend it).

  • Run unit test:

    make unit_test

  • Install additional required tools for functional and valgrind tests:

    curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py 
sudo python get-pip.py 
sudo apt install netcat valgrind bc 
sudo pip install --upgrade pip 
pip install virtualenv

In the case of the aarch64 architecture, additionally install python2-dev and libffi-dev using apt. It is needed when building pyOpenSSL.

  • Prepare the environment for test harness. Basically, you have to install the accumulator-server.py script and in a path under your control, ~/bin is the recommended one. Alternatively, you can install them in a system directory such as /usr/bin but it could collide with an RPM installation, thus it is not recommended. In addition, you have to set several environment variables used by the harness script (see scripts/testEnv.sh file) and create a virtualenv environment to use Flask version 1.0.2 instead of default Flask in Ubuntu. Run test harness in this environment.

    mkdir ~/bin
export PATH=~/bin:$PATH
make install_scripts INSTALL_DIR=~
. scripts/testEnv.sh
virtualenv /opt/ft_env
. /opt/ft_env/bin/activate
pip install Flask==1.0.2 pyOpenSSL==19.0.0 paho-mqtt==1.5.1

  • Run test harness (it takes some time, please be patient). Before starting test by make command, apply the following patch to avoid test failing.

    sed -i -e "s/Peer certificate cannot be authenticated[^\"]*/SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK/" /opt/fiware-orion/test/functionalTest/cases/0706_direct_https_notifications/direct_https_notifications_no_accept_selfsigned.test
make functional_test INSTALL_DIR=~

  • Once passed all the functional tests, you can run the valgrind tests (this will take longer than the functional tests, arm yourself with a lot of patience):

    make valgrind

You can generate coverage reports for the Orion Context Broker using the following procedure (optional):

  • Install the lcov tool

    sudo apt install lcov

  • Do first a successful pass for unit_test and functional_test, to check that everything is ok (see above)

  • Run coverage

    make coverage INSTALL_DIR=~

  • Setup for running Orion as system service after running tests. Run the curl localhost:1026/version command to check that the setup has been successful:

    sudo mkdir /etc/sysconfig
sudo cp /opt/fiware-orion/etc/config/contextBroker /etc/sysconfig/
sudo touch /var/log/contextBroker/contextBroker.log
sudo chown orion /var/log/contextBroker/contextBroker.log
sudo cp /opt/fiware-orion/rpm/SOURCES/etc/logrotate.d/logrotate-contextBroker-daily /etc/logrotate.d/
sudo cp /opt/fiware-orion/rpm/SOURCES/etc/sysconfig/logrotate-contextBroker-size /etc/sysconfig/
sudo cp /opt/fiware-orion/rpm/SOURCES/etc/cron.d/cron-logrotate-contextBroker-size /etc/cron.d/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start contextBroker.service