Compiling

Before forking and cloning nvmecompliance to a local system, the hosting environment should be created. The following Linux environment, or an equivalent one, should be created to host the compliance suite.

1. A 64 bit Linux distribution:
       * Linux 2.6.35-30-server #56-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jul 11 21:37:42 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux (Ubuntu Server 10.10 64 bit)
       * 32 bit distributions are not recommended since a compliance suite, to be effective, will need to test 64 bit accesses
2. Install boost libraries
       * For complete details see boost (v/1.42)
       * Example Ubuntu: "sudo apt-get install libboost1.42-all-dev"
3. Install doxygen
       * v/1.7.1
       * Example Ubuntu: "sudo apt-get install doxygen"
4. Install libxml++ and thus any dependencies like libxml2
       * For complete details see libxml++ (v/2.6)
       * Example Ubuntu: "sudo apt-get install libxml++2.6-dev libxml++2.6-doc"

The Linux make system is utilized with a default target to allow compiling the tnvme application. Other targets of interest are as follows:

1. clean
       * removes object files
       * removes intermediate output files
2. clobber
       * removes doxygen generated documentation
       * removes log files produced by tnvme
       * removes RPM package manager produced files
3. doc
       * Creates doxygen HTML output files from the source code files
           - Reference shell script tnvme/classHierarchy.sh to view the output from this action
4. rpm
       * Create RPM package manager files to allow installing tnvme to a target system