Building Robomongo (Mac OS X and Linux)

Important Note:
This document is for versions 1.0 and earlier and for MongoDB 3.2.
See latest documents here: https://github.com/Studio3T/robomongo/wiki

A. Prerequisites

Install CMake (3.2 or later)
Install Scons (2.4 or later)
Install Qt 5.7

Example installation for MAC OSX and Ubuntu:
  Go to http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.7/5.7.0/
  Download, run and install 
    qt-opensource-mac-x64-clang-5.7.0.dmg (for MAC OSX) 
    qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.7.0.run (for Linux)
  After successful installation you should have 
    /path/to/qt-5.7.0/5.7/clang_64 (for MAC OSX)
    /path/to/qt-5.7.0/5.7/gcc_64 (for Linux)

More information for installing on Ubuntu:
https://wiki.qt.io/Install_Qt_5_on_Ubuntu

Download and Build OpenSSL (1.0.1p) - (explained below in section B)

B. Building Robomongo and Dependencies

Step 1. Build OpenSSL (1.0.1p)

Steps to build OpenSSL on MAC:

Download openssl-1.0.1p (ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/old/1.0.1/openssl-1.0.1p.tar.gz)
tar -xvzf openssl-1.0.1p.tar.gz
cd /Users/<user>/Downloads/openssl-1.0.1p
./Configure darwin64-x86_64-cc shared --openssldir="@rpath"
make (or sudo make)
mkdir lib
cp libssl.1.0.0.dylib libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib lib/

Helper Commands

// to start fresh build
make clean

Steps to build OpenSSL on Linux:

Download openssl-1.0.1p (ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/old/1.0.1/openssl-1.0.1p.tar.gz)
tar -xvzf openssl-1.0.1p.tar.gz
cd /home/<user>/Downloads/openssl-1.0.1p
./config shared
make
mkdir lib
cp libssl* libcrypto* lib/

Step 2. Build Robomongo Shell (fork of MongoDB)

Clone Robomongo Shell and checkout to roboshell-v3.2 branch:

$ git clone https://github.com/paralect/robomongo-shell.git
$ cd robomongo-shell
$ git checkout roboshell-v3.2

Set special environment variable ROBOMONGO_CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to point to a set of directories:

Location of Qt 5 SDK
Location of Robomongo Shell
Location of OpenSSL

Separate directories by semicolon ; (not colon):

// MAC OSX example:
$ export ROBOMONGO_CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="/path/to/qt-5.7.0/5.7/clang_64;/path/to/robomongo-shell;/path/to/openssl-1.0.1p"
// Ubuntu example:
$ export ROBOMONGO_CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="/path/to/qt-5.7.0/5.7/gcc_64;/path/to/robomongo-shell;/path/to/openssl-1.0.1p"

Build Robomongo Shell:

$ bin/build

For more information refer to Building Robomongo Shell

Step 3. Build Robomongo

Download Robomongo:

$ git clone https://github.com/paralect/robomongo
$ cd robomongo

Run configuration step:

$ bin/configure

And finally, build Robomongo:

$ bin/build

To run robomongo:

$ bin/run

Helper commands

Clean build files (in order to start build from scratch):

$ bin/clean

Install Robomongo to build/release/install folder:

$ bin/install

Create package for your OS in build/release/package folder:

$ bin/pack

Important Notes

For Ubuntu 16.04 builds, it has been reported that Robomongo /bin/configure step might fail and installing mesa-common-dev package solves it. Details: https://github.com/paralect/robomongo/issues/1268
For Centos builds, Robomongo /bin/configure step might fail due to error: failed to find gl/gl.h. In this case, the following packages must be installed:

$ sudo yum install mesa-libGL
$ sudo yum install mesa-libGL-devel