Centos 7 Compiling ACE Static Library

• Download ACE http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu/
  Important: get packets like ACE-x.y.z.tar.gz rather than ACE-src-x.y.z.tar.gz.
  I have donwloaded the ACE version is ACE-6.3.4.tar.gz.
• Unpack

cd /home
tar -zxvf ACE-6.3.4.tar.gz

• set the environment variable ACE_ROOT to point to the directory where ace is unpacked

export ACE_ROOT="/home/ACE_wrappers"

• Create a soft link to config-linux.h

cd $ACE_ROOT/ace
ln -s config-linux.h config.h

• And a soft link to platform_linux.GNU

cd $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude
ln -s platform_linux.GNU platform_macros.GNU

• Compiling ACE Static Library

cd $ACE_ROOT/ace
make static_libs_only=1 -j4

If you want to compile the dynamic library, remove static_libs_only=1 and make -j4.

When you are done you should see the libraries in $ACE_ROOT/lib.