ØMQ on Debian...

 

the ØMQ installation guide advises those who want to build on Unix-like systems to choose Ubuntu as it's regarded as the most comfortable OS for developing. 
However, since I have Debian in my VM, I decided to go for installing ØMQ in Debian and have a little headache on the way :). It was worth it, and it's simple.  Just follow the guide :

 the following are what you need to do :

1. Make sure that libtool, autoconf, automake are installed.
2. Check whether uuid-dev package, uuid/e2fsprogs RPM or equivalent on your system is installed.
3. Unpack the .tar.gz source archive.
4. Run ./configure, followed by make.
5. To install ØMQ system-wide run sudo make install.
6. On Linux, run sudo ldconfig after installing ØMQ.

1. Make sure that libtool, autoconf, automake are installed.

    apt-get install libtool autoconf automake
 
2. Check whether uuid-dev package, uuid/e2fsprogs RPM or equivalent on your system is    installed. Use the package manager for Debian, to check if you have them already installed in your system.

     dpkg -s uuid-dev e2fsprogs

If they're are not installed, use the following command to install them :
 
     apt-get install uuid-dev 
      apt-get install e2fsprogs

3.   Download the current stable release (tar.gz source code) as provided on the ØMQ page and unpack it.


   #tar -zxvf zeromq-3.2.2.tar.gz 

4. Run ./configure, followed by make

(go to the unpacked source archive and run ./configure)

  # cd zeromq-3.2.2/
  # ./configure  

This executable script will match the libraries on your computer with those required by zmq. Thus you will see a list of checks.
If at the end of the checks you get an error like " configure: error: Unable to find a working C++ compiler ", it's likely that trying to run 'make' will fail

  # make


and you will get this error :

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.


Therefore you will need to get the C++ compiler or whatever that is missing.

    # apt-get install g++
   
 after installing g++ (c++) run again './configure' and make.

Now you are ready to write, compile and run your code ;-) 

/if you you have written your code in C, simply do : /
 
$ gcc -o myprogram myprogram.c -lzmq

$ ./myprogram


< -lzmq>  when you compile your code, you need to add -lzmq , to tell the linker to link against zeromq.