Build ngrest from source code

How to build ngrest from source code without using ngrest installer.

Install dependencies

First make sure you have git, CMake and GCC installed. If you unsure just start this:

sudo apt install git cmake g++

This command is for Debian/Ubuntu APT packet manager and may differ for other distributions OS.

Clone source code

mkdir -p ~/install
cd ~/install
https://github.com/loentar/ngrest.git

Build

mkdir -p ~/ngrest-build
cd ~/ngrest-build
cmake ../ngrest -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/ngrest -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG -DWITH_EXAMPLES=1 -DWITH_TESTS=1
make 

-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/ngrest specifies the installation directory.

To build debug version use -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG.

The -DWITH_EXAMPLES=1 and -DWITH_TESTS=1 arguments enable examples and tests respectively.

Run tests

make test

Install

make install

Start ngrest server

cd /opt/ngrest/bin
./ngrestserver

Now you can try it from web browser: http://localhost:9098/ngrest/services .