v2ray unblocks github access from mainland China. Install v2ray clients and set IE proxy _only_ on Windows, bootstrap.bat & vcpkg.exe picks it automatically.
Export vcpkg-2022.08.15 directory as ${VCPKG_ROOT}.
3. Install drogon framework for demo
The drogon framework is a high performance application framework, including client & server supports. vcpkg builds static(*.a) library by default, use x64-linux-dynamic for dynamic(*.so) library. The repo version requires g++-8 to build, install from CentOS SCL:
It sticks to drogon 1.8.0 and openssl 1.1.1n. ${VCPKG_ROOT} now required to be a git repository. In your project directory, install specific versions of libraries by running:
The only difference is the existence of vcpkg.json file, when using versioning.
7. Binary caching
If you change the root path of vcpkg, better clean up the cache, or build may fail. It’s $HOME/.cache/vcpkg/archives under Linux, and %LOCALAPPDATA%\vcpkg\archives under Windows.
This post just walk through the usage of CIMPLE and OpenPegasus in CentOS 5.x. For background knowledge, please refer to wikipedia.
In CentOS 5.x, just install OpenPegasus(2.9.1) from yum:
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# yum install tog-pegasus tog-pegasus-devel
We install the devel package since CIMPLE needs to build against it. I used CIMPLE 1.2.4. Before build it, we should fix broken symbolic links of OpenPegasus package, otherwise link error occurs:
There’s also a trivial bug which prevent CIMPLE from generating CMPI version of makefiles. Edit ${CIMPLE}/src/tools/genmak/main.cpp, find line “case ‘c'”, and change to “case ‘C'”. Now configure and make:
If get_instance() returns GET_INSTANCE_UNSUPPORTED, the adapter satisfies the request by calling enum_instances() and searching for a matching instances. It is recommend to leave get_instance() unsupported when the total number of instances is small.
After making your module, a registration is required for OpenPegasus CIM server. Start your server and register. The shared library should also be copied to OpenPegasus’s providers folder manually:
Since the DVD size of CentOS 5.x is largely increased(1.7G for 3.x, 2.3G for 4.x, while 4.0G for 5.x), I decided to use the CD approach. I downloaded the first CD image from one of its mirror site: http://mirrors.163.com/centos/5.6/isos/i386/.
– You can do a minimal install that just requires the first CD by performing the following two steps during the installation:
** During the category/task selection, deselect all package categories, and choose the “Customize now” option at the bottom of screen.
** During the customized package selection, deselect everything ( including the Base group ).
– There are reports that more than CD 1 is required in the following case:
** If you use some software raid options (this will also require CD 2 and 5)
** If you use encrypted filesystems
– When the anaconda installer notes that additional disks will be required but you desire a one CD install, the quick answer is one or more of the following approaches:
** Trim back and do a minimal install. Then once the install is up and running, pull in more packages with yum and add more options later.
– If you want to avoid using more than one CD but want to install more than just the minimal set of packages, you could also consider doing a network installation. A network installation ISO (called boot.iso) is available from the 5/os/<arch>/images/ directory on CentOS mirrors.
– This latter mode of installation, however, is only really reliable via a LAN (an Intranet installation) and not via the Internet.
From my practice, you MUST follow the de-selection order. Otherwise, it will still require other CDs. The actual installation lasts for about 1 minutes(installation of *.rpm files). After reboot, the system gives you a minimum installation with only text mode support. Now login with your root account, and make sure your network is ready. Additional components shall be installed manually using yum:
Actually, if only “X Window System” are passed to yum, you will get a simple GUI with an xterm and an xclock after running “startx” command.
You may want to take coffee during the process. For me, about 350M contents were downloaded. Reboot when finished and add “single” option to enter single mode in GRUB menu.
Since the first CD does not install GUI contents, so the runlevel is set to 3(text mode) by default after installation. We should switch it to 5(GUI mode) by editing /etc/inittab file, Find the line and change the middle value from 3 to 5:
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id:3:initdefault:
Now, we want to start the “firstboot” configuration utility to simplify our user account creation and other initial configurations. Check /etc/sysconfig/firstboot file, and make sure the value is set to “YES” like:
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RUN_FIRSTBOOT=YES
If the value is “NO”, the “firstboot” utility is skipped and GDM is displayed directly. When all have been done, issue the “exit” command to return to the normal startup process. This time, the “firstboot” wizard should show.
Here is the GDM screenshot after all above steps:
PS:
In 6.x, CentOS provides LiveCD and LiveDVD that can be used also for installation. But in 5.x, they can only be used for trial experience.
In 4.x/3.x, the openoffice suite is outdated, I suggest to not install them. I also suggest to remove redundant kernels:
There’s 4.9 release but no 4.9 *.iso images. The readme.txt says:
– The upstream provider did not respin media for the 4.9 release and therefore the CentOS project will also not respin our install media.
– Installs moving forward will be off the 4.8 media and an upgrade will move you from version 4.8 to version 4.9.
– We do this to maintain compatibility with 3rd party kernel drivers which are designed to be installed as part of the installation process.
Run “yum update” to update from 4.8 to 4.9. For me, about 300M contents were downloaded.
In 3.x release, I suggest to select “Kernel Development” group during installation. The 2.4.x kernel needs its source to compile kernel modules(like virtual machine addons).
