This simple librados program can be built by running "make" (and cleaned up with "make clean"), assuming you have librados-dev already installed. And executed using ./librados_hello_world -c ../../src/ceph.conf (or whatever path to a ceph.conf is appropriate to you, or by explicitly specifying monitors, user id, and keys). It demonstrates using librados in a non-Ceph project and the code should be self-explanatory.