Configure and Build

Table of Contents

• CMake options
• Downloading packages using CPM
• Installation instructions
• Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish)
• Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)
• Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa)
• Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)
• Fedora 35
• Fedora 36
• Debian 11 32-bit
• Gentoo
• Arch
• MacOS
• Other POSIX based platforms
• PostgreSQL versions
• Docker
• Using make, you can build the service easier
• Run framework tests
• Conan

CMake options

The following options could be used to control cmake:

Option	Description	Default
USERVER_FEATURE_CORE	Provide a core library with coroutines, otherwise build only userver-universal	ON
USERVER_FEATURE_MONGODB	Provide asynchronous driver for MongoDB	ON if platform is x86* and not *BSD and ${USERVER_FEATURE_CORE}
USERVER_FEATURE_POSTGRESQL	Provide asynchronous driver for PostgreSQL	${USERVER_FEATURE_CORE}
USERVER_FEATURE_REDIS	Provide asynchronous driver for Redis	${USERVER_FEATURE_CORE}
USERVER_FEATURE_CLICKHOUSE	Provide asynchronous driver for ClickHouse	${USERVER_FEATURE_CORE} if platform is x86*; OFF otherwise
USERVER_FEATURE_GRPC	Provide asynchronous driver for gRPC	${USERVER_FEATURE_CORE}
USERVER_FEATURE_RABBITMQ	Provide asynchronous driver for RabbitMQ (AMQP 0-9-1)	${USERVER_FEATURE_CORE}
USERVER_FEATURE_MYSQL	Provide asynchronous driver for MySQL/MariaDB	OFF
USERVER_FEATURE_UTEST	Provide 'utest' and 'ubench' for unit testing and benchmarking coroutines	${USERVER_FEATURE_CORE}
USERVER_FEATURE_CRYPTOPP_BLAKE2	Provide wrappers for blake2 algorithms of crypto++	ON
USERVER_FEATURE_PATCH_LIBPQ	Apply patches to the libpq (add portals support), requires libpq.a	ON
USERVER_FEATURE_CRYPTOPP_BASE64_URL	Provide wrappers for Base64 URL decoding and encoding algorithms of crypto++	ON
USERVER_FEATURE_REDIS_HI_MALLOC	Provide a hi_malloc(unsigned long) issue workaround	OFF
USERVER_FEATURE_REDIS_TLS	SSL/TLS support for Redis driver	OFF
USERVER_FEATURE_STACKTRACE	Allow capturing stacktraces using boost::stacktrace	OFF if platform is not *BSD; ON otherwise
USERVER_FEATURE_JEMALLOC	Use jemalloc memory allocator	ON
USERVER_FEATURE_DWCAS	Require double-width compare-and-swap	ON
USERVER_FEATURE_TESTSUITE	Enable functional tests via testsuite	ON
USERVER_FEATURE_GRPC_CHANNELZ	Enable Channelz for gRPC	ON for "sufficiently new" gRPC versions
USERVER_CHECK_PACKAGE_VERSIONS	Check package versions	ON
USERVER_SANITIZE	Build with sanitizers support, allows combination of values via 'val1 val2'	''
USERVER_SANITIZE_BLACKLIST	Path to file that is passed to the -fsanitize-blacklist option	''
USERVER_USE_LD	Linker to use, e.g. 'gold' or 'lld'	''
USERVER_LTO	Use link time optimizations	OFF for Debug build, ON for all the other builds
USERVER_NO_WERROR	Do not treat warnings as errors	ON
USERVER_PYTHON_PATH	Path to the python3 binary for use in testsuite tests	python3
USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGES	Download missing third party packages and use the downloaded versions	ON
USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGE_CARES	Download and setup c-ares if no c-ares of matching version was found	${USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGES}
USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGE_CCTZ	Download and setup cctz if no cctz of matching version was found	${USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGES}
USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGE_CLICKHOUSECPP	Download and setup clickhouse-cpp	${USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGES}
USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGE_CRYPTOPP	Download and setup CryptoPP if no CryptoPP of matching version was found	${USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGES}
USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGE_CURL	Download and setup libcurl if no libcurl of matching version was found	${USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGES}
USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGE_FMT	Download and setup Fmt if no Fmt of matching version was found	${USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGES}
USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGE_GTEST	Download and setup gtest if no gtest of matching version was found	${USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGES}
USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGE_GBENCH	Download and setup gbench if no gbench of matching version was found	${USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGES}
USERVER_FORCE_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGES	Download all possible third-party packages even if there is an installed system package	OFF
USERVER_IS_THE_ROOT_PROJECT	Build tests, samples and helper tools	auto-detects if userver is the top level project
USERVER_GOOGLE_COMMON_PROTOS_TARGET	Name of cmake target preparing google common proto library	Builds userver-api-common-protos
USERVER_GOOGLE_COMMON_PROTOS	Path to the folder with google common proto files	Downloads automatically
USERVER_PG_SERVER_INCLUDE_DIR	Path to the folder with PostgreSQL server headers, for example /usr/include/postgresql/15/server	autodetected
USERVER_PG_SERVER_LIBRARY_DIR	Path to the folder with PostgreSQL server libraries, for example /usr/lib/postgresql/15/lib	autodetected
USERVER_PG_INCLUDE_DIR	Path to the folder with PostgreSQL libpq headers, for example /usr/local/include	autodetected
USERVER_PG_LIBRARY_DIR	Path to the folder with PostgreSQL libpq libraries, for example /usr/local/lib	autodetected
USERVER_MYSQL_ALLOW_BUGGY_LIBMARIADB	Allows mysql driver to leak memory instead of aborting in some rare cases when linked against libmariadb3<3.3.4	OFF
USERVER_DISABLE_PHDR_CACHE	Disable caching of dl_phdr_info items, which interferes with dlopen	OFF
USERVER_FEATURE_UBOOST_CORO	Build with vendored version of Boost.context and Boost.coroutine2, is needed for sanitizers builds	ON

To explicitly specialize the compiler use the cmake options CMAKE_C_COMPILER and CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER. For example to use clang-12 compiler install it and add the following options to cmake: -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++-12 -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang-12

Downloading packages using CPM

userver uses CPM for downloading missing packages.

By default, we first try to find the corresponding system package. With USERVER_FORCE_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGES=ON, no such attempt is made, and we skip straight to CPMAddPackage. This can be useful to guarantee that the build uses the latest (known to userver) versions of third-party packages.

You can control the usage of CPM with USERVER_DOWNLOAD_* options. For example, USERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGES=OFF is useful for CI and other controlled environments to make sure that no download attempts are made, which ensures repeatability and the best CI build speed.

For details on the download options, refer to CPM documentation. Some advice:

• CPM_SOURCE_CACHE helps to avoid re-downloads with multiple userver build modes or multiple CPM-using projects;
• CPM_USE_NAMED_CACHE_DIRECTORIES (which userver enables by default) avoids junk library names shown in IDEs.

Installation instructions

Download and extract the latest release from https://github.com/userver-framework/userver

Follow the platforms specific instructions:

Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish)

1. Install the build and test dependencies from ubuntu-22.04.md file, configure git:

   bash
   sudo apt install $(cat scripts/docs/en/deps/ubuntu-22.04.md | tr '\n' ' ')
   git config --global --add safe.directory $(pwd)/third_party/clickhouse-cpp

2. Build the userver:

   bash
   mkdir build_release
   cd build_release
   cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
   make -j$(nproc)

Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

1. Install the build and test dependencies from ubuntu-21.10.md file:

   bash
   sudo apt install $(cat scripts/docs/en/deps/ubuntu-21.10.md | tr '\n' ' ')

2. Build the userver:

   bash
   mkdir build_release
   cd build_release
   cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
   make -j$(nproc)

Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa)

1. Install the build and test dependencies from ubuntu-20.04.md file:

   bash
   sudo apt install --allow-downgrades -y $(cat scripts/docs/en/deps/ubuntu-20.04.md | tr '\n' ' ')

2. Build the userver:

   bash
   mkdir build_release
   cd build_release
   cmake -DUSERVER_FEATURE_CRYPTOPP_BLAKE2=0 -DUSERVER_FEATURE_REDIS_HI_MALLOC=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
   make -j$(nproc)

Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)

1. Install the build and test dependencies from ubuntu-18.04.md file:

   bash
   sudo apt install --allow-downgrades -y $(cat scripts/docs/en/deps/ubuntu-18.04.md | tr '\n' ' ')

2. Build the userver:

   bash
   mkdir build_release
   cd build_release
   cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++-8 -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc-8 -DUSERVER_FEATURE_CRYPTOPP_BLAKE2=0 \
         -DUSERVER_FEATURE_CRYPTOPP_BASE64_URL=0 -DUSERVER_FEATURE_GRPC=0 -DUSERVER_FEATURE_POSTGRESQL=0 \
         -DUSERVER_FEATURE_MONGODB=0 -DUSERVER_USE_LD=gold -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
   make -j$(nproc)

Fedora 35

1. Install the build and test dependencies from fedora-35.md file:

   bash
   sudo dnf install -y $(cat scripts/docs/en/deps/fedora-35.md | tr '\n' ' ')

2. Build the userver:

   bash
   mkdir build_release
   cd build_release
   cmake -DUSERVER_FEATURE_STACKTRACE=0 -DUSERVER_FEATURE_PATCH_LIBPQ=0 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
   make -j$(nproc)

Fedora 36

1. Install the build and test dependencies from fedora-36.md file:

   bash
   sudo dnf install -y $(cat scripts/docs/en/deps/fedora-36.md | tr '\n' ' ')

2. Build the userver:

   bash
   mkdir build_release
   cd build_release
   cmake -DUSERVER_FEATURE_STACKTRACE=0 -DUSERVER_FEATURE_PATCH_LIBPQ=0 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
   make -j$(nproc)

Debian 11 32-bit

1. Install the build and test dependencies from debian-11x32.md file:

   bash
   sudo apt install -y $(cat scripts/docs/en/deps/debian-11x32.md | tr '\n' ' ')

2. Build the userver:

   bash
   mkdir build_release
   cd build_release
   cmake -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS='-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS='-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' \
         -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
   make -j$(nproc)

Gentoo

1. Install the build and test dependencies from gentoo.md file:

   bash
   sudo emerge --ask --update --oneshot $(cat scripts/docs/en/deps/gentoo.md | tr '\n' ' ')

2. Build the userver:

   bash
   mkdir build_release
   cd build_release
   cmake -DUSERVER_CHECK_PACKAGE_VERSIONS=0 -DUSERVER_FEATURE_GRPC=0 \
         -DUSERVER_FEATURE_CLICKHOUSE=0 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
   make -j$(nproc)

   If you have multiple python version installed and get ModuleNotFoundError use -DPython3_EXECUTABLE="/path/to/python" (e.g. /usr/bin/python3.10) to choose working python version.

Arch

1. Install the build and test dependencies from arch.md file:
   • Using an AUR helper (pikaur in this example)

     bash
     pikaur -S $(cat scripts/docs/en/deps/arch.md | sed 's/^makepkg|//g' | tr '\n' ' ')

   • No AUR helper

     bash
     sudo pacman -S $(cat scripts/docs/en/deps/arch.md | grep -v -- 'makepkg|' | tr '\n' ' ')
     cat scripts/docs/en/deps/arch.md | grep -oP '^makepkg\|\K.*' | while read ;\
       do \
         DIR=$(mktemp -d) ;\
         git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/$REPLY.git $DIR ;\
         pushd $DIR ;\
         yes|makepkg -si ;\
         popd ;\
         rm -rf $DIR ;\
       done

2. Build the userver:

   bash
   mkdir build_release
   cd build_release
   cmake -DUSERVER_FEATURE_PATCH_LIBPQ=0 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
   make -j$(nproc)

MacOS

MacOS is recommended only for development as it may have performance issues in some cases. At least MacOS 10.15 required with Xcode and Homebrew.

1. Install the build and test dependencies from macos.md file:

   brew install $(cat scripts/docs/en/deps/macos.md | tr '\n' ' ')

2. Force link OpenSSL 1.1:

   brew link --force openssl@1.1

3. Build the userver:

   mkdir build_release
   cd build_release
   cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON \
       -DUSERVER_NO_WERROR=1 -DUSERVER_CHECK_PACKAGE_VERSIONS=0 \
       -DUSERVER_FEATURE_REDIS_HI_MALLOC=1 \
       -DUSERVER_FEATURE_CRYPTOPP_BLAKE2=0 -DUSERVER_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGE_CRYPTOPP=1 \
       -DUSERVER_FEATURE_CLICKHOUSE=0 \
       -DUSERVER_FEATURE_RABBITMQ=0 \
       -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=$(brew --prefix openssl@1.1) \
       -DUSERVER_PG_LIBRARY_DIR=$(pg_config --libdir) -DUSERVER_PG_INCLUDE_DIR=$(pg_config --includedir) \
       -DUSERVER_PG_SERVER_LIBRARY_DIR=$(pg_config --pkglibdir) -DUSERVER_PG_SERVER_INCLUDE_DIR=$(pg_config --includedir-server) \
       ..

   Follow the cmake hints for the installation of required packets and keep calling cmake with the options.

   To run the tests, increase the limits of open files count via:

   ulimit -n 4096

Other POSIX based platforms

🐙 userver works well on modern POSIX platforms. Follow the cmake hints for the installation of required packets and experiment with the CMake options.

Feel free to provide a PR with instructions for your favorite platform at https://github.com/userver-framework/userver.

PostgreSQL versions

If CMake option USERVER_FEATURE_PATCH_LIBPQ is on, then the same developer version of libpq, libpgport and libpgcommon libraries should be available on the system. If there are multiple versions of those libraries use USERVER_PG_* CMake options to aid the build system in finding the right version.

You could also install any version of the above libraries by explicitly pinning the version. For example in Debian/Ubuntu pinning to version 14 could be done via the following commands:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7FCC7D46ACCC4CF8
echo "deb https://apt-archive.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt jammy-pgdg-archive main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
sudo apt update
 
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/preferences.d
 
printf "Package: postgresql-14\nPin: version 14.5*\nPin-Priority: 1001\n" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/preferences.d/postgresql-14
printf "Package: postgresql-client-14\nPin: version 14.5*\nPin-Priority: 1001\n" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/preferences.d/postgresql-client-14
sudo apt install --allow-downgrades -y postgresql-14 postgresql-client-14
 
printf "Package: libpq5\nPin: version 14.5*\nPin-Priority: 1001\n" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/preferences.d/libpq5
printf "Package: libpq-dev\nPin: version 14.5*\nPin-Priority: 1001\n"| sudo tee -a /etc/apt/preferences.d/libpq-dev
sudo apt install --allow-downgrades -y libpq5 libpq-dev

Docker

Note

Currently, only x86_64 and x86 architectures support ClickHouse and MongoDB drivers as the native libraries for those databases do not support other architectures. Those drivers are disabled on other architectures via CMake options.

Docker images in userver provide the following functionality:

• build and start all userver tests:

  bash
  docker-compose run --rm userver-tests

• build hello_service sample:

  bash
  docker-compose run --rm userver-service-sample

  or

  bash
  SERVICE_NAME=hello_service docker-compose run --rm userver-service-sample

• execute commands in userver development environment:

  bash
  docker-compose run --rm userver-ubuntu bash

Each step of the userver-tests could be executed separately:

Start CMake:

docker-compose run --rm userver-ubuntu bash -c 'cmake $CMAKE_OPTS -B./build -S./'

Build userver:

docker-compose run --rm userver-ubuntu bash -c 'cd /userver/build && make -j $(nproc)'

Run all test:

docker-compose run --rm userver-ubuntu bash -c 'cd /userver/build && ulimit -n 4096 && ctest -V'

Using make, you can build the service easier

Start cmake:

make docker-cmake-debug

Build userver:

make docker-build-debug

Run tests:

make docker-test-debug

You can replace the debug with a release

Run framework tests

To run tests and make sure that the framework works fine use the following command:

bash
cd build_release && ulimit -n 4096 && ctest -V

If you need to edit or make your own docker image with custom configuration, read about it here

Conan

Note

conan must have version >= 1.51, but < 2.0

Thanks to Open-Source community we have Conan support.

You must run the following in the userver directory:

conan profile new --detect default && conan profile update settings.compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11 default
conan create . --build=missing -pr:b=default -tf conan/test_package/

Now you can use userver as conan package and build it in your services.

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