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<h1>Rasqal RDF Query Library - Building and Installing from Source</h1>
<h2>0. Prerequisites</h2>
<p>Rasqal requires the
<a href="http://librdf.org/raptor/">Raptor RDF parser toolkit</a>
version 1.4.17 or later for parsing RDF, retrieving WWW content and
other utility classes and libraries. It can also use
<a href="http://librdf.org/">Redland</a>
as an alternate triple store and enabled by
<tt>--with-triples-source=redland</tt> as described below
however Raptor is also required.</p>
<h2>1. Getting the sources</h2>
<h2>1.1 Getting the sources from releases</h2>
<p>The sources are available from
<a href="http://download.librdf.org/source/">http://download.librdf.org/source/</a> (master site) and also from the
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/librdf/">SourceForge site</a>.</p>
<h2>1.2 Getting the sources from Subversion</h2>
<p>Building from development sources rather than from a release
may required some extra development tools. Presently this includes the
<a href="http://lex.sourceforge.net/">flex scanner generator</a>
version 2.5.31 or later.</p>
<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: Rasqal switched to use
<a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a>
for version control after the 0.9.11 release. If you were
using CVS, you will need to re-check out the sources.</p>
<pre>
svn checkout http://svn.librdf.org/repository/rasqal/trunk/
mv trunk rasqal
cd rasqal
</pre>
<p>At this stage, or after a <tt>svn update</tt> you will
need to create the automake and autoconf derived files, as described
below in <a href="#sec-create-configure">Create the configure program</a>
by using the <code>autogen.sh</code> script.</p>
<p>Building Rasqal in this way requires some particular development
tools not needed when building from snapshot releases - automake and
autoconf. The <code>autogen.sh</code> script looks for the newest
versions of the auto* tools and checks that they meet the minimum
versions.</p>
<h2>2. Configuring and building</h2>
<p>Requirements:
the <a href="http://librdf.org/raptor/">Raptor RDF parser toolkit</a>
version 1.4.11 or later
(plus flex and bison as specified above, when building from Subversion).
Recommended: <a href="http://www.pcre.org/">PCRE</a> regex library
or another implementing the POSIX regex API. If neither is
present some of the tests will fail and the query engine will
fail to handle regex matches.
</p>
<p>Rasqal is developed and built on x86 GNU/Linux and PPC Apple OSX.
</p>
<h3><a id="sec-create-configure" name="sec-create-configure"></a>2.1. Create <code>configure</code> program</h3>
<p>If there is no <tt>configure</tt> program, you can create it
using the <tt>autogen.sh</tt> script, as long as you have the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/automake.html">automake</a> and
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html">autoconf</a>
tools. This is done by:</p>
<pre>
./autogen.sh
</pre>
<p>and you can also pass along arguments intended for configure (see
below for what these are):</p>
<pre>
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local/somewhere
</pre>
<blockquote>
<p>On OSX you may have to explicitly set the <code>LIBTOOLIZE</code>
variable for the <code>libtoolize</code> utility since on
OSX <code>libtoolize</code> is a different program:</p>
<pre>
LIBTOOLIZE=glibtoolize ./autogen.sh
</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>Alternatively you can run them by hand with:</p>
<pre>
aclocal; autoheader; automake --add-missing; autoconf
</pre>
<p>The automake and autoconf tools have many different versions and
at present development is being done with automake 1.8.3 (minimum
version 1.7), autoconf 2.59 (minimum version 2.54) and libtool 1.5.4
(minimum version 1.4). These are only needed when compiling from Subversion
sources. autogen.sh enforces the requirements. In future
development will move to require automake 1.8, autoconf 2.58 and
libtool 1.5.</p>
<p>Rasqal also requires
<a href="http://lex.sourceforge.net/">flex</a> version 2.5.31 or newer
(2.5.4 will not work) and
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html">GNU Bison</a>
to build lexers and parsers.
These are only required when building from Subversion.</p>
<h3>2.2 Options for <tt>configure</tt></h3>
<p>Rasqal also supports the following extra configure options:</p>
<dl>
<dt><tt>--enable-query-languages=LANGUAGES</tt><br /></dt>
<dd><p>Pick the RDF query languages to build from the list:<br />
<code>rdql sparql laqrs</code><br />
The default when this option is omitted is to enable all query languages
except the experimental one, laqrs.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><tt>--with-memory-signing</tt><br /></dt>
<dd><p>Enable signing of memory allocations so that when memory is
allocated with malloc() and released free(), a check is made that the
memory was allocated in the same library.</p></dd>
<dt><tt>--with-regex-library=NAME</tt><br /></dt>
<dd><p>Pick a regex library to use - either <tt>pcre</tt> (default)
for the <a href="http://www.pcre.org/">PCRE</a>
or <tt>posix</tt> a POSIX regex implementation in the C library
</p>
</dd>
<dt><tt>--with-triples-source=NAME</tt><br /></dt>
<dd><p>Pick a triples source library to use - either <tt>raptor</tt>
(default, and always available) or <tt>redland</tt> to use
<a href="http://librdf.org/">Redland</a>. Raptor
creates a simple in-store list of triples on parsing each time whereas
Redland makes a much more efficient indexed in-memory store. See
also <tt>--with-redland-config</tt>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><tt>--with-pcre-config=NAME</tt><br /></dt>
<dd><p>Set the path to the <a href="http://www.pcre.org/">PCRE</a> pcre-config program</p></dd>
<dt><code>--with-raptor=</code> <code>system</code> or <code>internal</code><br /></dt>
<dd><p>
This option tells Rasqal to use either the system installed version
of raptor or a version in the sibling directory of ../raptor
If the option is omittted, Rasqal will guess and choose either the
system one, if new enough or the internal one if present. If
<code>--with-raptor=system</code> is used and Rasqal discovers that
the system raptor is too old, a warning will be given but the
configuration will continue. </p></dd>
<dt><tt>--with-redland-config=NAME</tt><br /></dt>
<dd><p>Set the path to the <a href="http://librdf.org/">Redland</a> redland-config program</p></dd>
</dl>
<h3>2.3 Configuring</h3>
<p>If everything is in the default place, do:</p>
<pre>
./configure
</pre>
<p>The most common configuration you will be doing something like this:</p>
<pre>
./configure --prefix=/usr
</pre>
<h3>2.4 Compiling</h3>
<p>Compile the library with;</p>
<pre>
make
</pre>
<p>Note: GNU make is probably required so it may be gmake or gnumake
on your system</p>
<h3>2.5 Testing</h3>
<p>You can build and run the built-in test suite with:</p>
<pre>
make check
</pre>
<p>which should emit lots of exciting test messages to the screen but
conclude with something like:<br />
<tt>All </tt><em>n</em><tt> tests passed</tt><br />
if everything works correctly. There might be some regex
tests that fail if no POSIX regex library was available when
raptor was compiled</p>
<h2>3. Using the library</h2>
<p>The public Rasqal API is described in the
<a href="librasqal.html">librasqal.3</a> UNIX manual/web page
</p>
<hr />
<p>Copyright (C) 2003-2008 <a href="http://www.dajobe.org/">Dave Beckett</a><br />Copyright (C) 2003-2005 <a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/">University of Bristol</a></p>
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