Build on Debian Ubuntu

Build on Debian/Ubuntu

:::caution Aerospike deprecated our C libevent Client Library. Use the standard C Client, which supports asynchronous programming models. :::

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

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

Library Name	.deb Package	Description
glibc	glibc
libssl	libssl-dev	Required for RIPEMD160 hash function.
libevent	libevent	libevent

To get the glibc and libssl dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libc6-dev libssl-dev

The libevent requires downloading and building the source.

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

Create and install the libevent library:

cd libevent-2.0.21-stable
./configure PREFIX=/usr
make
sudo make install

Download the Aerospike libevent client library package from here.

The client package for Linux is:

citrusleaf_client_libevent2_{VERSION}.tgz

To extract the package contents:

tar xvzf citrusleaf_client_libevent2_{VERSION}.tgz

This places the package contents in the following directory:

citrusleaf_client_libevent2_{VERSION}

To change to the Aerospike libevent directory and make the library:

cd citrusleaf_client_libevent2_{VERSION}
make

The library is created in the lib directory:

ls lib
libev2citrusleaf.a

On a successful build, run examples in the example directory:

cd example4
make
./example4