Building & Installing ACE in Linux

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ACE is a useful lib for programming network and multithreading applications.

• Get the source distribution: ACE5.xx.tar.gz
• Set environment variables:

ACE_ROOT=/home/username/ace
Export ACE_ROOT
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(ACE_ROOT)/ace:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

• Retrieve ACE-install.sh, and move it to the dir with the archive file

tar –zxvf ACE5.xx.tar.gz ACE_wrappers/ACE-install.sh
mv ACE_wrappers/ACE-install.sh ./

• Edit the install script:
  • Locate MY_ACEDIR, make it equals to /home/username/ace
  • Locate MY_ACE_CONFIG, make it to config-linux.h
  • Locate MY_ACE_GNU_MACROS, make it to platform_linux.GNU
• Run the install script:

./ACE-install.sh

That’s it. The header files and libraries are installed in $(ACE_ROOT)/ace.