Prerequisites

The WRE only requires things you should already have on your system anyway. So you should be able to skip directly to the next step. However, we'll provide a short list here anyway just so you have it. These are the WRE prereqs:

• gcc
• glibc
• g++
• bash
• zlib
• ncurses-devel
• and the standard GNU build tools such as libtool, make,  etc

Simple Build

To build the WRE for your platform follow these simple steps. Note that you should not install or run the WRE as root.

1) Download wre-x.x.x-source.tar.gz

tar xvfz wre-x.x.x-source.tar.gz

3) Make a /data folder and make it writable by you

sudo mkdir /data
sudo chown you /data

4) Run build.sh

cd /path/to/wrebuild
./build.sh --all

5) Now sit back and wait for it to complete. This process can take between 1 and 6 hours depending upon the speed of your system.

5a) XML::SAX may ask if you want it to edit ParserConfig.ini. Accept the default answer.

That's it. You should now have a fully functional WRE build. Now you can read the install.txt file in /data/wre/docs/install.txt. 

Build Options

Perhaps because you like doing stuff the hard way, or perhaps because you are troubleshooting a build problem, we provide a series of options that you can run for a less simple build process.

First and foremost you can find the complete list of build options, by typing:

./build.sh --help

You can then choose to build one thing at a time like this:

./build.sh --clean
./build.sh --perl
./build.sh --apache

Or you can build a few things at a time like this:

./build.sh --perl --apache

NOTE: The build system does not keep track of the order in which you passed in these arguments, so it is possible that they will build out of order, and therefore not build properly. Some of the build steps have prerequisites. Here's a list of those:

Perl: none

Apache: Perl

MySQL: Perl, Apache (for OpenSSL)

Image Magick: Perl

AWStats: Perl

WRE: Perl

Perl Modules: Perl, Apache, MySQL, Image Magick