Installation

Installing ffead-cpp

Before installing please ensure that all necessary dependencies and prerequisites are met which are,

• c++ compiler
• autotools
• ssl libraries
• zlib

There are other dependencies if you need to use the sdorm module in ffead-cpp. You can visit the Prerequisites page for detailed information.

You can build ffead-cpp from source or download a binary version depending on your operating system.

Binaries are located at Releases

To build ffead-cpp from source,

1. Download the ffead-cpp source code zip from github, Latest or if you want to build a prior release you can do so from Releases
2. Extract the zip file to a location of your choice, for e.g, /home/user/ffead-cpp and change the directory to this new folder
3. ./autogen.sh (Setup configure for your platform)
4. ./configure (Setup makefiles)
5. make all (Build ffead-cpp)
6. make build-apps (Build the sample applications in web and generate ffead-cpp binary)
7. cd ffead-cpp-2.0-bin/ (Navigate to the ffead-cpp binary folder)
8. ./server.sh (Startup ffead-cpp)

Point your browser at http://localhost:8080/index.html and see if everything works!

In case you have downloaded a binary release then you can just execute the server.sh script after extracting the release folder to start the ffead-cpp HTTP server.