How to build for Linux

How to setup, build, and run tests on Linux

1. Install Ubuntu 14.04 or later.

2. Install all the needed build tools and libraries

sudo apt-get install g++-4.8 g++ git make libboost1.54-all-dev libssl-dev cmake

3. Clone the project using Git (it will be stored in the folder "casablanca"):

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk.git casablanca

Going forward, you will want to pull from the master branch, which will always contain the last known release.

4. Build the SDK for Release

cd casablanca/Release
mkdir build.release
cd build.release
CXX=g++-4.8 cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make

You can build the Debug version by specifying -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug on the cmake line instead.
You can also build the static libraries instead of the shared libraries by adding -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=0 on the cmake line above.

5. After building you can run the tests by executing the ./run_tests.sh script inside the "Binaries" folder:

cd Binaries
./test_runner *_test.so

For versions prior to 2.0, please visit Setup and Build on Linux (1.4)