Build on Windows

Build on Windows

Use the Aerospike libevent client to write applications to store and retrieve data from an Aerospike database cluster.

Prerequisite

The Aerospike libevent client library for Windows requires the following libraries present on the local machine:

Library Name	Description
openSSL	Required for RIPEMD160 hash function.
pthread	Required for pthread mutex.
libevent	libevent

Installing libevent

To download and extract the latest 2.0.x libevent library:

wget https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
tar xvf libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz

To build from the command line:

cd libevent-2.0.X-stable
nmake -f makefile.nmake

To build from Visual C++:

1. Select File>New>Project.
2. On a general node, pick the Makefile Project template.

• Name = libevent-2.0.X-stable,
• Location = parent directory (libevent-2.0.X-stable).

1. Click OK.
2. Click Next.
3. Type the build command at the command prompt

> nmake -f makefile.nmake

1. Build the project.

Installing OpenSSL

1. Download OpenSSL from here.
2. Double-click the exe and follow the installation instructions.

Installing pthread

Download pthread, including the lib and dll folders from here

Downloading the Aerospike libevent Library

Download the client package from here.

The client package for Windows is:

citrusleaf_client_winlibevent2_{VERSION}.zip

Extract the package contents:

unzip citrusleaf_client_winlibevent2_{VERSION}.zip

This places the package contents in the directory:

citrusleaf_client_winlibevent2_{VERSION}.zip

Building

1. Open the visual studio solution file cl_libevent2\window which contains these two projects:

• CitrusleafLibrary — The Aerospike libevent client library files.
• CitrusleafDemo — The demo load application built using the Aerospike libevent client library.

1. Start the solution and add all dependencies: CitrusleafLibrary
   • Header files — Edit and add CitrusleafLibrary -> Properties -> Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories
   • {path of libevent2_folder}\include
   • {path of libevent2_folder}\WIN32-Code
   • {path of openSSL_folder}\include
   • {path of pthread_folder}\include

• Libraries — Edit and add CitrusleafLibrary -> Properties -> Configuration Properties -> Librarian -> Additional Library Directories
• {path of libevent2_folder}
• {path of pthread_folder} CitrusleafDemo
• Header files — Edit and add CitrusleafDemo -> Properties -> Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories
• {path of libevent2_folder}\include
• Libraries — Edit and add CitrusleafDemo -> Properties -> Configuration Properties -> Linker -> Additional Library Directories
• {path of libevent2_folder}
• {path of pthread}\lib\x64
• {path of openSSL}\lib

1. Build the solution.

Running Examples

Once the CitrusleafDemo project builds successfully:

1. In the CitrusleafDemo.cpp file, set the config parameters (such as namespace, set, hostname, and so on).
2. Compile the CitrusleafDemo project and run.