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DOC: split the README into README + INSTALL 

The README was barely usable after all the additions having accumulated
over the years. This patch introduces a new INSTALL file explaining how
to build and install haproxy with various levels of details. The README
is now mostly an index to the list of useful documentations.
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Installation instructions for HAProxy
=====================================
This is a development version, so it is expected to break from time to time,
to add and remove features without prior notification and it should not be used
in production. If you are not used to build from sources or if you are not used
to follow updates then it is recommended that instead you use the packages
provided by your software vendor or Linux distribution. Most of them are taking
this task seriously and are doing a good job at backporting important fixes. If
for any reason you'd prefer to use a different version than the one packaged
for your system, you want to be certain to have all the fixes or to get some
commercial support, other choices are available at http://www.haproxy.com/.
Areas covered in this document
==============================
1) Quick build & install
2) Basic principles
3) Build environment
4) Dependencies
5) Advanced build options
6) How to install HAProxy
1) Quick build & install
========================
If you've already built HAProxy and are just looking for a quick reminder, here
are a few build examples :
- recent Linux system with all options, make and install :
$ make clean
$ make -j 4 TARGET=linux2628 USE_NS=1 USE_TFO=1 \
USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_ZLIB=1 USE_LUA=1 USE_PCRE=1 USE_SYSTEMD=1
$ sudo make install
- FreeBSD and OpenBSD, build with all options :
$ gmake -j 4 TARGET=freebsd USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_ZLIB=1 USE_LUA=1 USE_PCRE=1
- embedded Linux, build using a cross-compiler :
$ make -j 4 TARGET=linux2628 USE_NS=1 USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_SLZ=1 USE_PCRE=1 \
CC=/opt/cross/gcc730-arm/bin/gcc
- Build with static PCRE on Solaris / UltraSPARC :
$ make TARGET=solaris CPU=ultrasparc USE_STATIC_PCRE=1
For more advanced build options or if a command above reports an error, please
read the following sections.
2) Basic principles
===================
HAProxy uses a single GNU Makefile which supports options on the command line,
so that there is no need to hack a "configure" file to work on your system. The
makefile totally supports parallel build using "make -j <jobs>" where <jobs>
matches the number of usable processors, which on some platforms is returned by
the "nproc" utility. The explanations below may occasionally refer to some
options, usually in the form "name=value", which have to be passed to the
command line. This means that the option has to be passed after the "make"
command. For example :
$ make -j $(nproc) TARGET=generic USE_GZIP=1
One required option is TARGET, it must be set to a target platform name, which
provides a number of presets. The list of known platforms is displayed when no
target is specified. It is not strictly required to use the exact target, you
can use a relatively similar one and adjust specific variables by hand.
Most configuration variables are in fact booleans. Some options are detected and
enabled by default if available on the target platform. This is the case for all
those named "USE_<feature>". These booleans are enabled by "USE_<feature>=1"
and are disabled by "USE_<feature>=" (with no value). The last occurrence on the
command line overrides any previous one. Example :
$ make TARGET=generic USE_THREAD=
In case of error or missing TARGET, a help screen is displayed. It is also
possible to display a list of all known options using "make help".
3) Build environment
====================
HAProxy requires a working GCC or Clang toolchain and GNU make :
- GNU make >= 3.80. Note that neither Solaris nor OpenBSD's make work with
the GNU Makefile. If you get many syntax errors when running "make", you
may want to retry with "gmake" which is the name commonly used for GNU make
on BSD systems.
- GCC >= 3.4 (up to 8.1 tested). Older versions can be made to work with a
few minor adaptations if really needed. Newer versions may sometimes break
due to compiler regressions or behaviour changes. The version shipped with
your operating system is very likely to work with no trouble. Clang >= 3.0
is also known to work as an alternative solution. Recent versions may emit
a bit more warnings that are worth reporting.
- GNU ld (binutils package), with no particular version. Other linkers might
work but were not tested.
On debian or Ubuntu systems and their derivatives, you may get all these tools
at once by issuing the two following commands :
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
On Fedora, CentOS, RHEL and derivatives, you may get the equivalent packages
with the following command :
$ sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
Please refer to your operating system's documentation for other systems.
It is also possible to build HAProxy for another system or platform using a
cross-compiler but in this case you probably already have installed these
tools.
Building HAProxy may require between 10 and 40 MB of free space in the
directory where the sources have been extracted, depending on the debugging
options involved.
4) Dependencies
===============
HAProxy in its basic form does not depend on anything beyond a working libc.
However a number of options are enabled by default, or are highly recommended,
and these options will typically involve some external components or libraries,
depending on the targetted platform.
Optional dependencies may be split into several categories :
- memory allocation
- regular expressions
- multi-threading
- password encryption
- cryptography
- compression
- lua
- device detection
- miscellaneous
4.1) Memory allocation
----------------------
By default, HAProxy uses the standard malloc() call provided by the libc. It
may be built to use dlmalloc instead. In this case, "USE_DLMALLOC=1" needs to
be appended to the build options, and "DLMALLOC_SRC" needs to point to the
absolute path to "dlmalloc.c". Doing this is not safe when using threads.
HAProxy may also be built to use jemalloc, which is fast and thread-safe.
In order to use it, please add "-ljemalloc" to the ADDLIB variable. You may
possibly also need to append "-lpthread" and/or "-ldl" depending on the
operating system.
4.2) Regular expressions
------------------------
HAProxy may make use regular expressions (regex) to match certain patterns. The
regex engine is provided by default in the libc. On some operating systems, it
might happen that the original regex library provided by the libc is too slow,
too limited or even bogus. For example, on older Solaris versions up to 8, the
default regex used not to properly extract group references, without reporting
compilation errors. Also, some early versions of the GNU libc used to include a
regex engine which could be slow or even crash on certain patterns.
If you plan on importing a particularly heavy configuration involving a lot of
regex, you may benefit from using some alternative regex implementations sur as
PCRE. HAProxy natively supports PCRE and PCRE2, both in standard and JIT
flavors (Just In Time). The following options are available depending on the
library version provided on your system :
- "USE_PCRE=1" : enable PCRE version 1, dynamic linking
- "USE_STATIC_PCRE=1" : enable PCRE version 1, static linking
- "USE_PCRE_JIT=1" : enable PCRE version 1 in JIT mode
- "USE_PCRE2=1" : enable PCRE version 2, dynamic linking
- "USE_STATIC_PCRE2=1" : enable PCRE version 2, static linking
- "USE_PCRE2_JIT=1" : enable PCRE version 2 in JIT mode
Both of these libraries may be downloaded from https://www.pcre.org/.
By default, the include and library paths are figured from the "pcre-config"
and "pcre2-config" utilities. If these ones are not installed or inaccurate
(for example when cross-compiling), it is possible to force the path to include
files using "PCRE_INC" and "PCRE2_INC" respectively, and the path to library
files using "PCRE_LIB" and "PCRE2_LIB" respectively. For example :
$ make TARGET=generic \
USE_PCRE2_JIT=1 PCRE2_INC=/opt/cross/include PCRE2_LIB=/opt/cross/lib
4.3) Multi-threading
--------------------
On some systems for which positive feedback was reported, multi-threading will
be enabled by default. When multi-threading is used, the libpthread library
(POSIX threading) will be used. If the target system doesn't contain such a
library, it is possible to forcefully disable multi-threading by adding
"USE_THREAD=" on the command line.
4.4) Password encryption
------------------------
Many systems provide password encryption functions used for authentication. On
some systems these functions are part of the libc. On others, they're part of a
separate library called "libcrypt". The default targets are pre-configured
based on which system needs the library. It is possible to forcefully disable
the linkage against libcrypt by adding "USE_LIBCRYPT=" on the command line, or
to forcefully enable it using "USE_LIBCRYPT=1".
4.5) Cryptography
-----------------
For SSL/TLS, it is necessary to use a cryptography library. HAProxy currently
supports the OpenSSL library, and is known to build ant work with branches
0.9.8, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0 and 1.1.1. OpenSSL follows a long-term
support cycle similar to HAProxy's, and each of the branches above receives its
own fixes, without forcing you to upgrade to another branch. There is no excuse
for staying vulnerable by not applying a fix available for your version. There
is always a small risk of regression when jumping from one branch to another
one, especially when it's very new, so it's preferable to observe for a while
if you use a different version than your system's defaults.
Two OpenSSL derivatives called LibreSSL and BoringSSL are reported to work as
well. While there are some efforts from the community to ensure they work well,
OpenSSL remains the primary target and this means that in case of conflicting
choices, OpenSSL support will be favored over other options.
In order to enable SSL/TLS support, simply pass "USE_OPENSSL=1" on the command
line and the default library present on your system will be used :
$ make TARGET=generic USE_OPENSSL=1
If you want to use a different version from the one provided by your system
(which is not recommended due to the risk of missing security fixes), it is
possible to indicate the path to the SSL include files using SSL_INC, and the
SSL library files using SSL_LIB. Example :
$ make TARGET=generic \
USE_OPENSSL=1 SSL_INC=/opt/ssl-1.1.1/include SSL_LIB=/opt/ssl-1.1.1/lib
In order to link OpenSSL statically against HAProxy, first download OpenSSL
from https://www.openssl.org/ then build it with the "no-shared" keyword and
install it to a local directory, so your system is not affected :
$ export STATICLIBSSL=/tmp/staticlibssl
$ ./config --prefix=$STATICLIBSSL no-shared
$ make && make install_sw
Then when building haproxy, pass that path via SSL_INC and SSL_LIB :
$ make TARGET=generic \
USE_OPENSSL=1 SSL_INC=$STATICLIBSSL/include SSL_LIB=$STATICLIBSSL/lib
When building with OpenSSL on some systems, you may also need to enable support
for the "libz" library, which is visible if the linker complains about function
"deflateInit()" not being found. In this case, simply append "ADDLIB=-lz" to
the command line.
It is worth mentioning that asynchronous cryptography engines are supported on
OpenSSL 1.1.0 and above. Such engines are used to access hardware cryptography
acceleration that might be present on your system.
4.6) Compression
----------------
HAProxy can compress HTTP responses before delivering them to clients, in order
to save network bandwidth. Two compression options are available. The first one
involves the widely known zlib library, which is very likely installed on your
system. In order to use zlib, simply pass "USE_ZLIB=1" to the command line. If
the library is not installed in your default system's path, it is possible to
specify the path to the include files using ZLIB_INC, and the path to the
library files using ZLIB_LIB :
$ make TARGET=generic \
USE_ZLIB=1 ZLIB_INC=/opt/zlib-1.2.11/include ZLIB_LIB=/opt/zlib-1.2.11/lib
However, zlib maintains an in-memory context for each compressed stream, which
is not always welcome when dealing with large sites. An alternative solution is
to use libslz instead, which doesn't consume memory, which is much faster, but
compresses slightly less efficiently. For this, please use "USE_SLZ=1", and
optionally make "SLZ_INC" and "SLZ_LIB" point to the library's include and
library paths, respectively.
Zlib is commonly found on most systems, otherwise updates can be retrieved from
http://www.zlib.net/. It is easy and fast to build, and new versions sometimes
provide better performance so it might be worth using an up-to-date one. Libslz
can be downloaded http://libslz.org/ and is even easier to build.
4.7) Lua
--------
Lua is an embedded programming langage supported by HAProxy to provide more
advanced scripting capabilities. Only versions 5.3 and above are supported.
In order to enable Lua support, please specify "USE_LUA=1" on the command line.
Some systems provide this library under various names to avoid conflicts with
previous versions. By default, HAProxy looks for "lua5.3", "lua53", "lua". If
your system uses a different naming, you may need to set the library name in
the "LUA_LIB_NAME" variable.
If Lua is not provided on your system, it can be very simply built locally. It
can be downloaded from https://www.lua.org/, extracted and built, for example :
$ cd /opt/lua-5.3.5
$ make linux
The path to the include files and library files may be set using "LUA_INC" and
"LUA_LIB" respectively. For example :
$ make TARGET=generic \
USE_LUA=1 LUA_INC=/opt/lua-5.3.5/src LUA_LIB=/opt/lua-5.3.5/src
4.8) Device detection
---------------------
HAProxy supports several device detection modules relying on third party
products. Some of them may provide free code, others free libs, others free
evaluation licenses. Please read about their respective details in the
following files :
doc/DeviceAtlas-device-detection.txt for DeviceAtlas
doc/51Degrees-device-detection.txt for 51Degrees
doc/WURFL-device-detection.txt for Scientiamobile WURFL
4.9) Miscellaneous
------------------
Some systems have specificities. Usually these specificities are known and/or
detected and properly set for you. If you need to adjust the behaviour, here
are the extra libraries that may be referenced at build time :
- USE_RT=1 build with librt, which is sometimes needed on some systems
when using threads. It is set by default on Linux platforms,
and may be disabled using "USE_RT=" if your system doesn't
have one.
- USE_DL=1 build with libdl, which is usually needed for Lua and OpenSSL
on Linux. It is automatically detected and may be disabled
using "USE_DL=", though it should never harm.
- USE_SYSTEMD=1 enables support for the sdnotify features of systemd,
allowing better integration with systemd on Linux systems
which come with it. It is never enabled by default so there
is no need to disable it.
5) How to build HAProxy
=======================
This section assumes that you have already read section 2 (basic principles)
and section 3 (build environment). It often refers to section 4 (dependencies).
To build haproxy, you have to choose your target OS amongst the following ones
and assign it to the TARGET variable :
- linux22 for Linux 2.2
- linux24 for Linux 2.4 and above (default)
- linux24e for Linux 2.4 with support for a working epoll (> 0.21)
- linux26 for Linux 2.6 and above
- linux2628 for Linux 2.6.28, 3.x, and above (enables splice and tproxy)
- solaris for Solaris 8 or 10 (others untested)
- freebsd for FreeBSD 5 to 12 (others untested)
- netbsd for NetBSD
- osx for Mac OS/X
- openbsd for OpenBSD 5.7 and above
- aix51 for AIX 5.1
- aix52 for AIX 5.2
- cygwin for Cygwin
- haiku for Haiku
- generic for any other OS or version.
- custom to manually adjust every setting
You may also choose your CPU to benefit from some optimizations. This is
particularly important on UltraSparc machines. For this, you can assign
one of the following choices to the CPU variable :
- i686 for intel PentiumPro, Pentium 2 and above, AMD Athlon (32 bits)
- i586 for intel Pentium, AMD K6, VIA C3.
- ultrasparc : Sun UltraSparc I/II/III/IV processor
- native : use the build machine's specific processor optimizations. Use with
extreme care, and never in virtualized environments (known to break).
- generic : any other processor or no CPU-specific optimization. (default)
Alternatively, you may just set the CPU_CFLAGS value to the optimal GCC options
for your platform. A second variable named SMALL_OPTS also supports passing a
number of defines and compiler options usually for small systems. For better
clarity it's recommended to pass the options which result in a smaller binary
(like memory limits or -Os) into this variable.
If you are building for a different system than the one you're building on,
this is called "cross-compiling". HAProxy supports cross-compilation pretty
well and tries to ease it by letting you adjust paths to all libraries (please
read section 4 on dependencies for more details). When cross-compiling, you
just need to pass the path to your compiler in the "CC" variable, and the path
to the linker in the "LD" variable. Most of the time, setting the CC variable
is enough since LD points to it by default.
By default the build process runs in quiet mode and hide the details of the
commands that are executed. This allows to more easily catch build warnings
and see what is happening. However it is not convenient at all to observe what
flags are passed to the compiler nor what compiler is involved. Simply append
"V=1" to the "make" command line to switch to verbose mode and display the
details again. It is recommended to use this option when cross-compiling to
verify that the paths are correct and that /usr/include is never invovled.
You may want to build specific target binaries which do not match your native
compiler's target. This is particularly true on 64-bit systems when you want
to build a 32-bit binary. Use the ARCH variable for this purpose. Right now
it only knows about a few x86 variants (i386,i486,i586,i686,x86_64), two
generic ones (32,64) and sets -m32/-m64 as well as -march=<arch> accordingly.
This variable is only used to set ARCH_FLAGS to preset values, so if you know
the arch-specific flags that your system needs, you may prefer to set
ARCH_FLAGS instead. Note that these flags are passed both to the compiler and
to the linker. For example, in order to build a 32-bit binary on an x86_64
Linux system with SSL support without support for compression but when OpenSSL
requires ZLIB anyway :
$ make TARGET=linux2628 ARCH=i386 USE_OPENSSL=1 ADDLIB=-lz
Recent systems can resolve IPv6 host names using getaddrinfo(). This primitive
is not present in all libcs and does not work in all of them either. Support in
glibc was broken before 2.3. Some embedded libs may not properly work either,
thus, support is disabled by default, meaning that some host names which only
resolve as IPv6 addresses will not resolve and configs might emit an error
during parsing. If you know that your OS libc has reliable support for
getaddrinfo(), you can add USE_GETADDRINFO=1 on the make command line to enable
it. This is the recommended option for most Linux distro packagers since it's
working fine on all recent mainstream distros. It is automatically enabled on
Solaris 8 and above, as it's known to work.
If your system supports PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions), then you
really should build with libpcre which is between 2 and 10 times faster than
other libc implementations. Regex are used for header processing (deletion,
rewriting, allow, deny). Please see section 4 about dependencies to figure
how to build with PCRE support.
It is possible to add native support for SSL, by passing "USE_OPENSSL=1" on the
make command line. The libssl and libcrypto will automatically be linked with
HAProxy. Some systems also require libz, so if the build fails due to missing
symbols such as deflateInit(), then try again with "ADDLIB=-lz". Please check
section 4 about dependencies for more information on how to build with OpenSSL.
HAProxy can compress HTTP responses to save bandwidth. Please see section 4
about dependencies to see the available libraries and associated options.
By default, the DEBUG variable is set to '-g' to enable debug symbols. It is
not wise to disable it on uncommon systems, because it's often the only way to
get a usable core when you need one. Otherwise, you can set DEBUG to '-s' to
strip the binary.
If the ERR variable is set to any non-empty value, then -Werror will be added
to the compiler so that any build warning will trigger an error. This is the
recommended way to build when developing, and it is expected that contributed
patches were tested with ERR=1.
The SSL stack supports session cache synchronization between all running
processes. This involves some atomic operations and synchronization operations
which come in multiple flavors depending on the system and architecture :
Atomic operations :
- internal assembler versions for x86/x86_64 architectures
- gcc builtins for other architectures. Some architectures might not
be fully supported or might require a more recent version of gcc.
If your architecture is not supported, you willy have to either use
pthread if supported, or to disable the shared cache.
- pthread (posix threads). Pthreads are very common but inter-process
support is not that common, and some older operating systems did not
report an error when enabling multi-process mode, so they used to
silently fail, possibly causing crashes. Linux's implementation is
fine. OpenBSD doesn't support them and doesn't build. FreeBSD 9 builds
and reports an error at runtime, while certain older versions might
silently fail. Pthreads are enabled using USE_PTHREAD_PSHARED=1.
Synchronization operations :
- internal spinlock : this mode is OS-independent, light but will not
scale well to many processes. However, accesses to the session cache
are rare enough that this mode could certainly always be used. This
is the default mode.
- Futexes, which are Linux-specific highly scalable light weight mutexes
implemented in user-space with some limited assistance from the kernel.
This is the default on Linux 2.6 and above and is enabled by passing
USE_FUTEX=1
- pthread (posix threads). See above.
If none of these mechanisms is supported by your platform, you may need to
build with USE_PRIVATE_CACHE=1 to totally disable SSL cache sharing. Then it
is better not to run SSL on multiple processes. Note that you don't need these
features if you only intend to use multi-threading and never multi-process.
If you need to pass other defines, includes, libraries, etc... then please
check the Makefile to see which ones will be available in your case, and
use/override the USE_* variables from the Makefile.
AIX 5.3 is known to work with the generic target. However, for the binary to
also run on 5.2 or earlier, you need to build with DEFINE="-D_MSGQSUPPORT",
otherwise __fd_select() will be used while not being present in the libc, but
this is easily addressed using the "aix52" target. If you get build errors
because of strange symbols or section mismatches, simply remove -g from
DEBUG_CFLAGS.
You can easily define your own target with the GNU Makefile. Unknown targets
are processed with no default option except USE_POLL=default. So you can very
well use that property to define your own set of options. USE_POLL can even be
disabled by setting USE_POLL="". For example :
$ gmake TARGET=tiny USE_POLL="" TARGET_CFLAGS=-fomit-frame-pointer
If you need to pass some defines to the preprocessor or compiler, you may pass
them all in the DEFINE variable. Example:
$ make TARGET=generic DEFINE="-DDEBUG_DONT_SHARE_POOLS -DDEBUG_MEMORY_POOLS"
The ADDINC variable may be used to add some extra include paths; this is
sometimes needed when cross-compiling. Similarly the ADDLIB variable may be
used to specifify extra paths to library files. Example :
$ make TARGET=generic ADDINC=-I/opt/cross/include ADDLIB=-L/opt/cross/lib64
6) How to install HAProxy
=========================
To install haproxy, you can either copy the single resulting binary to the
place you want, or run :
$ sudo make install
If you're packaging it for another system, you can specify its root directory
in the usual DESTDIR variable.
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HAProxy how-to ease of use.
----------------------
version 1.9 Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for :
willy tarreau
2018/12/08 - INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
- LICENSE for the project's license
- CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions
1) How to build it
------------------ The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory :
This is a development version, so it is expected to break from time to time, - doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
to add and remove features without prior notification and it should not be used - doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
in production. If you are not used to build from sources or if you are not used - doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
to follow updates then it is recommended that instead you use the packages provided - doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
by your software vendor or Linux distribution. Most of them are taking this task - doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
seriously and are doing a good job at backporting important fixes. If for any - doc/management.txt for the management guide
reason you'd prefer a different version than the one packaged for your system, - doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
you want to be certain to have all the fixes or to get some commercial support, - doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
other choices are available at : - doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
- doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)
http://www.haproxy.com/
To build haproxy, you will need :
- GNU make. Neither Solaris nor OpenBSD's make work with the GNU Makefile.
If you get many syntax errors when running "make", you may want to retry
with "gmake" which is the name commonly used for GNU make on BSD systems.
- GCC between 2.95 and 8.1. Others may work, but not tested.
- GNU ld
Also, you might want to build with libpcre support, which will provide a very
efficient regex implementation and will also fix some badness on Solaris' one.
To build haproxy, you have to choose your target OS amongst the following ones
and assign it to the TARGET variable :
- linux22 for Linux 2.2
- linux24 for Linux 2.4 and above (default)
- linux24e for Linux 2.4 with support for a working epoll (> 0.21)
- linux26 for Linux 2.6 and above
- linux2628 for Linux 2.6.28, 3.x, and above (enables splice and tproxy)
- solaris for Solaris 8 or 10 (others untested)
- freebsd for FreeBSD 5 to 12 (others untested)
- netbsd for NetBSD
- osx for Mac OS/X
- openbsd for OpenBSD 5.7 and above
- aix51 for AIX 5.1
- aix52 for AIX 5.2
- cygwin for Cygwin
- haiku for Haiku
- generic for any other OS or version.
- custom to manually adjust every setting
You may also choose your CPU to benefit from some optimizations. This is
particularly important on UltraSparc machines. For this, you can assign
one of the following choices to the CPU variable :
- i686 for intel PentiumPro, Pentium 2 and above, AMD Athlon
- i586 for intel Pentium, AMD K6, VIA C3.
- ultrasparc : Sun UltraSparc I/II/III/IV processor
- native : use the build machine's specific processor optimizations. Use with
extreme care, and never in virtualized environments (known to break).
- generic : any other processor or no CPU-specific optimization. (default)
Alternatively, you may just set the CPU_CFLAGS value to the optimal GCC options
for your platform.
By default the build process runs in quiet mode and hide the details of the
commands that are executed. This allows to more easily catch build warnings
and see what is happening. However it is not convenient at all to observe what
flags are passed to the compiler nor what compiler is involved. Simply append
"V=1" to the "make" command line to switch to verbose mode and display the
details again.
You may want to build specific target binaries which do not match your native
compiler's target. This is particularly true on 64-bit systems when you want
to build a 32-bit binary. Use the ARCH variable for this purpose. Right now
it only knows about a few x86 variants (i386,i486,i586,i686,x86_64), two
generic ones (32,64) and sets -m32/-m64 as well as -march=<arch> accordingly.
If your system supports PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions), then you
really should build with libpcre which is between 2 and 10 times faster than
other libc implementations. Regex are used for header processing (deletion,
rewriting, allow, deny). The only inconvenient of libpcre is that it is not
yet widely spread, so if you build for other systems, you might get into
trouble if they don't have the dynamic library. In this situation, you should
statically link libpcre into haproxy so that it will not be necessary to
install it on target systems. Available build options for PCRE are :
- USE_PCRE=1 to use libpcre, in whatever form is available on your system
(shared or static)
- USE_STATIC_PCRE=1 to use a static version of libpcre even if the dynamic
one is available. This will enhance portability.
- with no option, use your OS libc's standard regex implementation (default).
Warning! group references on Solaris seem broken. Use static-pcre whenever
possible.
If your system doesn't provide PCRE, you are encouraged to download it from
http://www.pcre.org/ and build it yourself, it's fast and easy.
Recent systems can resolve IPv6 host names using getaddrinfo(). This primitive
is not present in all libcs and does not work in all of them either. Support in
glibc was broken before 2.3. Some embedded libs may not properly work either,
thus, support is disabled by default, meaning that some host names which only
resolve as IPv6 addresses will not resolve and configs might emit an error
during parsing. If you know that your OS libc has reliable support for
getaddrinfo(), you can add USE_GETADDRINFO=1 on the make command line to enable
it. This is the recommended option for most Linux distro packagers since it's
working fine on all recent mainstream distros. It is automatically enabled on
Solaris 8 and above, as it's known to work.
It is possible to add native support for SSL using the GNU makefile, by passing
"USE_OPENSSL=1" on the make command line. The libssl and libcrypto will
automatically be linked with haproxy. Some systems also require libz, so if the
build fails due to missing symbols such as deflateInit(), then try again with
"ADDLIB=-lz".
Your are strongly encouraged to always use an up-to-date version of OpenSSL, as
found on https://www.openssl.org/ as vulnerabilities are occasionally found and
you don't want them on your systems. HAProxy is known to build correctly on all
currently supported branches (0.9.8, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 at the time
of writing). Branch 1.0.2 is currently recommended for the best combination of
features and stability. Asynchronous engines require OpenSSL 1.1.0 though. It's
worth mentioning that some OpenSSL derivatives are also reported to work but
may occasionally break. Patches to fix them are welcome but please read the
CONTRIBUTING file first.
To link OpenSSL statically against haproxy, build OpenSSL with the no-shared
keyword and install it to a local directory, so your system is not affected :
$ export STATICLIBSSL=/tmp/staticlibssl
$ ./config --prefix=$STATICLIBSSL no-shared
$ make && make install_sw
When building haproxy, pass that path via SSL_INC and SSL_LIB to make and
include additional libs with ADDLIB if needed (in this case for example libdl):
$ make TARGET=linux26 USE_OPENSSL=1 SSL_INC=$STATICLIBSSL/include SSL_LIB=$STATICLIBSSL/lib ADDLIB=-ldl
It is also possible to include native support for zlib to benefit from HTTP
compression. For this, pass "USE_ZLIB=1" on the "make" command line and ensure
that zlib is present on the system. Alternatively it is possible to use libslz
for a faster, memory less, but slightly less efficient compression, by passing
"USE_SLZ=1".
Zlib is commonly found on most systems, otherwise updates can be retrieved from
http://www.zlib.net/. It is easy and fast to build. Libslz can be downloaded
from http://1wt.eu/projects/libslz/ and is even easier to build.
By default, the DEBUG variable is set to '-g' to enable debug symbols. It is
not wise to disable it on uncommon systems, because it's often the only way to
get a complete core when you need one. Otherwise, you can set DEBUG to '-s' to
strip the binary.
For example, I use this to build for Solaris 8 :
$ make TARGET=solaris CPU=ultrasparc USE_STATIC_PCRE=1
And I build it this way on OpenBSD or FreeBSD :
$ gmake TARGET=freebsd USE_PCRE=1 USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_ZLIB=1
And on a classic Linux with SSL and ZLIB support (eg: Red Hat 5.x) :
$ make TARGET=linux26 USE_PCRE=1 USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_ZLIB=1
And on a recent Linux >= 2.6.28 with SSL and ZLIB support :
$ make TARGET=linux2628 USE_PCRE=1 USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_ZLIB=1
In order to build a 32-bit binary on an x86_64 Linux system with SSL support
without support for compression but when OpenSSL requires ZLIB anyway :
$ make TARGET=linux26 ARCH=i386 USE_OPENSSL=1 ADDLIB=-lz
The SSL stack supports session cache synchronization between all running
processes. This involves some atomic operations and synchronization operations
which come in multiple flavors depending on the system and architecture :
Atomic operations :
- internal assembler versions for x86/x86_64 architectures
- gcc builtins for other architectures. Some architectures might not
be fully supported or might require a more recent version of gcc.
If your architecture is not supported, you willy have to either use
pthread if supported, or to disable the shared cache.
- pthread (posix threads). Pthreads are very common but inter-process
support is not that common, and some older operating systems did not
report an error when enabling multi-process mode, so they used to
silently fail, possibly causing crashes. Linux's implementation is
fine. OpenBSD doesn't support them and doesn't build. FreeBSD 9 builds
and reports an error at runtime, while certain older versions might
silently fail. Pthreads are enabled using USE_PTHREAD_PSHARED=1.
Synchronization operations :
- internal spinlock : this mode is OS-independent, light but will not
scale well to many processes. However, accesses to the session cache
are rare enough that this mode could certainly always be used. This
is the default mode.
- Futexes, which are Linux-specific highly scalable light weight mutexes
implemented in user-space with some limited assistance from the kernel.
This is the default on Linux 2.6 and above and is enabled by passing
USE_FUTEX=1
- pthread (posix threads). See above.
If none of these mechanisms is supported by your platform, you may need to
build with USE_PRIVATE_CACHE=1 to totally disable SSL cache sharing. Then
it is better not to run SSL on multiple processes.
If you need to pass other defines, includes, libraries, etc... then please
check the Makefile to see which ones will be available in your case, and
use the USE_* variables in the Makefile.
AIX 5.3 is known to work with the generic target. However, for the binary to
also run on 5.2 or earlier, you need to build with DEFINE="-D_MSGQSUPPORT",
otherwise __fd_select() will be used while not being present in the libc, but
this is easily addressed using the "aix52" target. If you get build errors
because of strange symbols or section mismatches, simply remove -g from
DEBUG_CFLAGS.
You can easily define your own target with the GNU Makefile. Unknown targets
are processed with no default option except USE_POLL=default. So you can very
well use that property to define your own set of options. USE_POLL can even be
disabled by setting USE_POLL="". For example :
$ gmake TARGET=tiny USE_POLL="" TARGET_CFLAGS=-fomit-frame-pointer
1.1) Device Detection
---------------------
HAProxy supports several device detection modules relying on third party
products. Some of them may provide free code, others free libs, others free
evaluation licenses. Please read about their respective details in the
following files :
doc/DeviceAtlas-device-detection.txt for DeviceAtlas
doc/51Degrees-device-detection.txt for 51Degrees
doc/WURFL-device-detection.txt for Scientiamobile WURFL
2) How to install it
--------------------
To install haproxy, you can either copy the single resulting binary to the
place you want, or run :
$ sudo make install
If you're packaging it for another system, you can specify its root directory
in the usual DESTDIR variable.
3) How to set it up
-------------------
There is some documentation in the doc/ directory :
- intro.txt : this is an introduction to haproxy, it explains what it is
what it is not. Useful for beginners or to re-discover it when planning
for an upgrade.
- architecture.txt : this is the architecture manual. It is quite old and
does not tell about the nice new features, but it's still a good starting
point when you know what you want but don't know how to do it.
- configuration.txt : this is the configuration manual. It recalls a few
essential HTTP basic concepts, and details all the configuration file
syntax (keywords, units). It also describes the log and stats format. It
is normally always up to date. If you see that something is missing from
it, please report it as this is a bug. Please note that this file is
huge and that it's generally more convenient to review Cyril Bonté's
HTML translation online here :
http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/configuration-1.6.html
- management.txt : it explains how to start haproxy, how to manage it at
runtime, how to manage it on multiple nodes, how to proceed with seamless
upgrades.
- gpl.txt / lgpl.txt : the copy of the licenses covering the software. See
the 'LICENSE' file at the top for more information.
- the rest is mainly for developers.
There are also a number of nice configuration examples in the "examples"
directory as well as on several sites and articles on the net which are linked
to from the haproxy web site.
4) How to report a bug
----------------------
It is possible that from time to time you'll find a bug. A bug is a case where
what you see is not what is documented. Otherwise it can be a misdesign. If you
find that something is stupidly design, please discuss it on the list (see the
"how to contribute" section below). If you feel like you're proceeding right
and haproxy doesn't obey, then first ask yourself if it is possible that nobody
before you has even encountered this issue. If it's unlikely, the you probably
have an issue in your setup. Just in case of doubt, please consult the mailing
list archives :
http://marc.info/?l=haproxy
Otherwise, please try to gather the maximum amount of information to help
reproduce the issue and send that to the mailing list :
haproxy@formilux.org
Please include your configuration and logs. You can mask your IP addresses and
passwords, we don't need them. But it's essential that you post your config if
you want people to guess what is happening.
Also, keep in mind that haproxy is designed to NEVER CRASH. If you see it die
without any reason, then it definitely is a critical bug that must be reported
and urgently fixed. It has happened a couple of times in the past, essentially
on development versions running on new architectures. If you think your setup
is fairly common, then it is possible that the issue is totally unrelated.
Anyway, if that happens, feel free to contact me directly, as I will give you
instructions on how to collect a usable core file, and will probably ask for
other captures that you'll not want to share with the list.
5) How to contribute
--------------------
Please carefully read the CONTRIBUTING file that comes with the sources. It is
mandatory.
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sed -ne '0,/^%changelog/d;p' < examples/haproxy.spec >>examples/haproxy.spec- sed -ne '0,/^%changelog/d;p' < examples/haproxy.spec >>examples/haproxy.spec-
mv examples/haproxy.spec- examples/haproxy.spec mv examples/haproxy.spec- examples/haproxy.spec
# updating branch and date in README and all modified doc files except the outdated architecture.txt # updating branch and date in all modified doc files except the outdated architecture.txt
for file in README doc/intro.txt doc/configuration.txt doc/management.txt $(git diff --name-only v${OLD}.. -- doc); do for file in doc/intro.txt doc/configuration.txt doc/management.txt $(git diff --name-only v${OLD}.. -- doc); do
if [ ! -e "$file" ]; then continue; fi if [ ! -e "$file" ]; then continue; fi
if [ "$file" = doc/architecture.txt ]; then continue; fi if [ "$file" = doc/architecture.txt ]; then continue; fi
echo "Updating $file ..." echo "Updating $file ..."
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if [ -n "$INTERACTIVE" ]; then if [ -n "$INTERACTIVE" ]; then
vi CHANGELOG VERSION VERDATE examples/haproxy*.spec \ vi CHANGELOG VERSION VERDATE examples/haproxy*.spec \
src/haproxy.c README doc/configuration.txt \ src/haproxy.c doc/configuration.txt \
$(git diff --name-only v${OLD}.. -- doc) $(git diff --name-only v${OLD}.. -- doc)
fi fi