Diameter

Appendix BfreeDiameter from Sources

B.1 Introduction

This appendix provides more details on how to build freeDiameter. It is recommended for anyone interested in developing new features in Diameter or hacking in the existing freeDiameter code. As a prerequisite, the reader should be familiar with software development and the Linux environment.

The general steps to compile and then run freeDiameter are the following:

1. 1. Install the required tools and dependencies.
2. 2. Obtain the source code.
3. 3. Set up your build environment.
4. 4. Run make, which will in turn call the C compiler and other tools needed to compile freeDiameter.
5. 5. Create a freeDiameter configuration file.
6. 6. Run and test freeDiameter.

The following sections provide more details on these steps, which will create the environment covered in Appendix A.

B.2 Tools and Dependencies

As freeDiameter source code is not tied to any integrated development environment, almost any system can be used as a development machine. There are, however, a few dependencies that need to be matched. Use the latest stable release for your operating system when installing or updating dependencies.

Operating System

The freeDiameter code follows the programming interface specified by POSIX, so it can run on any UNIX® compliant system, and it has been tested successfully on several flavors of GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. See http://www.unix.org for details on the POSIX API.

Build System

freeDiameter uses CMake for configuring its build system. CMake is a command‐line ...