Below versions of librdkafka are available in respective distributions at the time of creation of these build instructions:

• RHEL 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 8.1, 8.2 has 0.11.4
• Ubuntu 18.04 has 0.11.3-1build1
• Ubuntu 20.04 has 1.2.1-1
• SLES 12 SP5, 15 SP1, 15 SP2 has 0.11.6-1.3.1

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build librdkafka version 1.5.0 on Linux on IBM Z for following distributions:

• RHEL (7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 8.1, 8.2)
• SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP1, 15 SP2)
• Ubuntu (18.04, 20.04)

General Notes:

• When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.
• A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writable directory anywhere you'd like to place it.

If you want to build librdkafka using manual steps, go to STEP 1.2.

Use the following commands to build librdkafka using the build script. Please make sure you have wget installed.

wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linux-on-ibm-z/scripts/master/librdkafka/1.5.0/build_librdkafka.sh

# Build librdkafka
bash build_librdkafka.sh   [Provide -t option for executing build with tests]

If the build completes successfully, go to STEP 2. In case of error, check logs for more details or go to STEP 1.2 to follow manual build steps.

export SOURCE_ROOT=/<source_root>/

• RHEL (7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 8.1, 8.2)

  sudo yum install -y git gcc-c++ make cyrus-sasl-devel python3
  

• SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP1, 15 SP2)

  sudo zypper install -y git-core gcc-c++ make cyrus-sasl-devel python3 zlib-devel

• Ubuntu (18.04, 20.04)

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install -y git gcc g++ make python3

• Download source

  cd $SOURCE_ROOT
  git clone  https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka.git
  cd librdkafka/
  git checkout v1.5.0

• Configure

  • For RHEL (7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 8.1, 8.2) and Ubuntu (18.04, 20.04)

  ./configure --install-deps

  • For SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP1, 15 SP2)

  ./configure

• Build and install

  make
  sudo make install

cd $SOURCE_ROOT/librdkafka/tests
make unit

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