LinuxBuild

Building the SP from Source on Linux

The following installation procedure will build the Shibboleth SP and all its dependencies. Completion of the instructions will result in a functional and loaded but unconfigured SP installed under /opt/shibboleth-sp. If you'd like to use an alternative directory, modify all paths accordingly.

Building Shibboleth

Building Shibboleth requires building or obtaining a cascade of dependent projects.  

• The Boost headers.  But you don't need to actually build or install the full Boost library set.

• log4shib

• zlib

• OpenSSL

• libcurl

• Xerces-C

• XML-Security-C

At this stage you should build the products which make up the Shibboleth project.

• XMLTooling-C

• OpenSAML-C

Finally build the SP.  When building Shibboleth, you can usually rely on the configure script to detect your Apache version and do the right thing, but in special cases, you can pass various options to control the Apache module version and locate the apxs script to use.

Basic Configuration

The basics are covered under the RPMInstall topic, but the file locations in a source build will generally be "self-contained" under a common prefix.

Additional considerations:

• The LD_LIBRARY_PATH will have to contain the path to the relevant libraries. This is required for both the shibd service and Apache.

• There are sample Apache snippets in <prefix>/etc/shibboleth for each version of Apache. Use them as a sample to add your own commands, but don't include them directly because they are overwritten by upgrades.