Building MongoDB

SCONS

For detail information about building, please see the manual.

If you want to build everything (mongod, mongo, tools, etc):

$ scons all

If you only want to build the database:

$ scons

To install

$ scons --prefix=/opt/mongo install

Please note that prebuilt binaries are available on mongodb.org and may be the easiest way to get started.

SCONS TARGETS

mongod
mongos
mongo
mongoclient
all

COMPILER VERSIONS

Mongo has been tested with GCC 4.x and Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Older versions of GCC may not be happy.

WINDOWS

See http://dochub.mongodb.org/core/buildingforwindows

Build requirements:

vc++ express or visual studio
python 2.5 (for scons - 2.6 might be needed for some regression tests)
scons
boost 1.35 (or higher)

Or download a prebuilt binary for Windows at www.mongodb.org.

UBUNTU

To install dependencies on Ubuntu systems:

# aptitude install scons build-essential
# aptitude install libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev

To run tests as well, you will need PyMongo:

# aptitude install python-pymongo

Then build as usual with scons:

$ scons all

OS X

Try Homebrew:

$ brew install mongodb

FREEBSD

Install the following ports:

devel/boost
devel/libexecinfo
devel/pcre
lang/spidermonkey

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