This page describes how to build Opal prior to revision 2.4.2 (Wolf). For information on building later releases of Opal, see this page
Opal is built from source using make
and configure
in the same way as most other Unix programs.
You will need the following:
Download and extract the Opal source code. For the purposes of this document, the directory that contains Opal will be indicated as installdir/OPAL
configure
and buildTo build the release (optimised) version of Opal, use the following commands:
cd
installdir/OPAL
./configure
make opt
To build the debug version (includes debugging symbols) of Opal, use the following commands:
cd
installdir/OPAL
./configure
make debug