Fluent Bit uses CMake as it build system. The suggested procedure to prepare the build system consists on the following steps:
Prepare environment
In the following steps you can find exact commands to build and install the project with the default options. If you already know how CMake works you can skip this part and look at the build options available.
Change to the build/ directory inside the Fluent Bit sources:
Let configure the project specifying where the root path is located:
Now you are ready to start the compilation process through the simple make command:
to continue installing the binary on the system just do:
it's likely you may need root privileges so you can try to prefixing the command with sudo.
Build Options
Fluent Bit provides certain options to CMake that can be enabled or disabled when configuring, please refer to the following tables under the General Options, Input Plugins and Output Plugins sections.
General Options
Input Plugins
The input plugins provides certain features to gather information from a specific source type which can be a network interface, some built-in metric or through a specific input device, the following input plugins are available:
Output Plugins
The output plugins gives the capacity to flush the information to some external interface, service or terminal, the following table describes the output plugins available as of this version:
No
FLB_BINARY
Build executable
Yes
FLB_EXAMPLES
Build examples
Yes
FLB_SHARED_LIB
Build shared library
Yes
FLB_VALGRIND
Enable Valgrind support
No
FLB_TRACE
Enable trace mode
No
FLB_TESTS_RUNTIME
Enable runtime tests
No
FLB_TESTS_INTERNAL
Enable internal tests
No
FLB_TESTS
Enable tests
No
FLB_MTRACE
Enable mtrace support
No
FLB_INOTIFY
Enable Inotify support
Yes
FLB_POSIX_TLS
Force POSIX thread storage
No
FLB_SQLDB
Enable SQL embedded database support
No
FLB_HTTP_SERVER
Enable HTTP Server
No
FLB_BACKTRACE
Enable backtrace/stacktrace support
Yes
FLB_LUAJIT
Enable Lua scripting support
Yes
FLB_STATIC_CONF
Build binary using static configuration files. The value of this option must be a directory containing configuration files.
$ cmake ../
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 4.9.2
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 4.9.2
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
...
-- Could NOT find Doxygen (missing: DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE)
-- Looking for accept4
-- Looking for accept4 - not found
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/edsiper/coding/fluent-bit/build
$ make
Scanning dependencies of target msgpack
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Scanning dependencies of target fluent-bit-static
[ 66%] Building C object src/CMakeFiles/fluent-bit-static.dir/flb_pack.c.o
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Linking C executable ../bin/fluent-bit
[100%] Built target fluent-bit-bin