Building for Linux

General Instructions

1. Install Dependencies - see platform specific below
2. get source

   git clone git://github.com/mongodb/mongo.git
   # pick a stable version unless doing true dev
   git tag -l
   # Switch to a stable branch (unless doing development) --
   # an even second number indicates "stable".  (Although with
   # stharding you will want the latest if the latest is less
   # than 1.6.0.) For example:
   git checkout r1.4.1
   

3. build

   scons all

4. install

   scons --prefix=/opt/mongo install

Special Notes about Spider Monkey

Most pre-built spider monkey binaries don't have UTF8 compiled in. Additionally, ubuntu has a weird version of spider monkey that doesn't support everything we use. If you get any warnings during compile time or runtime, we highly recommend building spider monkey from source. See Building Spider Monkey for more information.

We currently support spider monkey 1.6 and 1.7, although there is some degredation with 1.6, so we recommend using 1.7. We have not yet tested 1.8, but will once it is officially released.

Package Requirements

Fedora

Fedora 8 or 10

sudo yum -y install git tcsh scons gcc-c++ glibc-devel
sudo yum -y install boost-devel pcre-devel js-devel readline-devel
#for release builds:
sudo yum -y install boost-devel-static readline-static ncurses-static

Ubuntu

See spider monkey note above.

Ubuntu 8.04

apt-get -y install tcsh git-core scons g++
apt-get -y install libpcre++-dev libboost-dev libreadline-dev xulrunner-1.9-dev
apt-get -y install libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-date-time-dev

Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10

apt-get -y install tcsh git-core scons g++
apt-get -y install libpcre++-dev libboost-dev libreadline-dev xulrunner-1.9.1-dev
apt-get -y install libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-date-time-dev

Ubuntu 10.04

apt-get -y install tcsh git-core scons g++
apt-get -y install libpcre++-dev libboost-dev libreadline-dev xulrunner-dev
apt-get -y install libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-date-time-dev

See Also

• The Building page for setup information for other operating systems
• The main Database Internals page