Building MongoDB ================ Please note that prebuilt binaries are available on [mongodb.org](http://www.mongodb.org/downloads) and may be the easiest way to get started, rather than building from source. To build MongoDB, you will need: * A modern C++ compiler capable of compiling C++17. One of the following is required: * GCC 8.2 or newer * Clang 7.0 (or Apple XCode 10.2 Clang) or newer * Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 or newer (See Windows section below for details) * On Linux and macOS, the libcurl library and header is required. MacOS includes libcurl. * Fedora/RHEL - `dnf install libcurl-devel` * Ubuntu/Debian - `libcurl-dev` is provided by three packages. Install one of them: * `libcurl4-openssl-dev` * `libcurl4-nss-dev` * `libcurl4-gnutls-dev` * On Ubuntu, the lzma library is required. Install `liblzma-dev` * Python 3.7.x and Pip modules: * See the section "Python Prerequisites" below. * About 13 GB of free disk space for the core binaries (`mongod`, `mongos`, and `mongo`) and about 600 GB for the install-all target. MongoDB supports the following architectures: arm64, ppc64le, s390x, and x86-64. More detailed platform instructions can be found below. MongoDB Tools -------------- The MongoDB command line tools (`mongodump`, `mongorestore`, `mongoimport`, `mongoexport`, etc) have been rewritten in [Go](http://golang.org/) and are no longer included in this repository. The source for the tools is now available at [mongodb/mongo-tools](https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-tools). Python Prerequisites --------------- In order to build MongoDB, Python 3.7+ is required, and several Python modules must be installed. Note that on macOS the system python is still python2. You will need to use homebrew or macports or similar to obtain python3. To install the required Python modules, run: $ python3 -m pip install -r etc/pip/compile-requirements.txt Installing the requirements inside a python3 based virtualenv dedicated to building MongoDB is recommended. Note: In order to compile C-based Python modules, you'll also need the Python and OpenSSL C headers. Run: * Fedora/RHEL - `dnf install python3-devel openssl-devel` * Ubuntu/Debian - `apt-get install python3.7-dev libssl-dev` SCons --------------- If you only want to build the database server `mongod`: $ python3 buildscripts/scons.py install-mongod ***Note***: For C++ compilers that are newer than the supported version, the compiler may issue new warnings that cause MongoDB to fail to build since the build system treats compiler warnings as errors. To ignore the warnings, pass the switch `--disable-warnings-as-errors` to scons. $ python3 buildscripts/scons.py install-mongod --disable-warnings-as-errors To install `mongod` directly to `/opt/mongo` $ python3 buildscripts/scons.py DESTDIR=/opt/mongo install-mongod To create an installation tree of the servers in `/tmp/unpriv` that can later be copied to `/usr/priv` $ python3 buildscripts/scons.py DESTDIR=/tmp/unpriv PREFIX=/usr/priv install-servers If you want to build absolutely everything (`mongod`, `mongo`, unit tests, etc): $ python3 buildscripts/scons.py install-all-meta SCons Targets -------------- The following targets can be named on the scons command line to build only certain components: * `install-mongod` * `install-mongos` * `install-mongo` or `install-shell` * `install-servers` (includes `mongod` and `mongos`) * `install-core` (includes `mongod`, `mongos`, `mongo`) * `install-all` Where to find Binaries ---------------------- The build system will produce an installation tree into `$DESTDIR/$PREFIX`. `DESTDIR` by default is `build/install` while `PREFIX` is by default empty. This means that with all of the listed targets all built binaries will be in `build/install/bin` by default. Windows -------------- See [the windows build manual](https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/wiki/Build-Mongodb-From-Source#windows-specific-instructions) Build requirements: * Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 or newer * Python 3.7 Or download a prebuilt binary for Windows at www.mongodb.org. Debian/Ubuntu -------------- To install dependencies on Debian or Ubuntu systems: # apt-get install build-essential OS X -------------- Install Xcode 10.2 or newer. FreeBSD -------------- Install the following ports: * `devel/libexecinfo` * `lang/llvm70` * `lang/python` Add `CC=clang70 CXX=clang++70` to the `scons` options, when building. OpenBSD -------------- Install the following ports: * `devel/libexecinfo` * `lang/gcc` * `lang/python`