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Building CXX MongoDB Driver

Below versions of CXX MongoDB Driver are available in respective distributions at the time of creation of these build instructions:

  • Ubuntu (22.04, 24.04) have 1.1.3

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build CXX MongoDB Driver version 4.4.0 on Linux on IBM Z for following distributions:

  • RHEL (8.10, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2)
  • SLES (15 SP7, 16)
  • Ubuntu (22.04, 24.04)

General Notes:

  • When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.

  • A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writable directory anywhere you'd like to place it.

1. Build and Install CXX MongoDB Driver

1.1. Install dependencies

export SOURCE_ROOT=/<source_root>/

  • RHEL (8.10, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2)

    sudo yum install -y cyrus-sasl-devel gcc-c++ make openssl-devel pkgconfig snappy-devel git tar wget curl diffutils cmake python3 libarchive libzstd-devel

  • SLES 15 SP7

    sudo zypper install -y cmake cyrus-sasl-devel gcc14 gcc14-c++ make libopenssl-devel pkg-config snappy-devel git tar wget curl gzip libzstd-devel
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/cc cc /usr/bin/gcc-14 14
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-14 14
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-14 14
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/c++ c++ /usr/bin/g++-14 14
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/s390x-linux-gnu-gcc s390x-linux-gnu-gcc /usr/bin/gcc-14 14
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/cpp cpp /usr/bin/cpp-14 14

  • SLES 16

    sudo zypper install -y cmake cyrus-sasl-devel gcc-c++ make libopenssl-devel pkg-config snappy-devel git tar wget curl gzip libzstd-devel

  • Ubuntu (22.04, 24.04)

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y cmake gcc g++ libsasl2-dev libssl-dev libsnappy-dev make pkg-config git tar wget curl python3 libzstd-dev

1.2. Build and Install MongoDB C Driver

cd $SOURCE_ROOT
git clone -b 2.3.1 https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver.git
cd mongo-c-driver
mkdir cmake-build
cd cmake-build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

1.3. Build and Install MongoDB CXX Driver

cd $SOURCE_ROOT
git clone -b r4.4.0 https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver.git
cd mongo-cxx-driver
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local ..
sudo cmake --build .
make
sudo make install

2. Basic validation test (Optional)

Please refer to Get started with the C++ Driver for basic validation test.

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