Seabolt

Seabolt is the C Connector Library for Neo4j. The library supports multiple versions of the Bolt protocol through the new Connector API and will provide a base layer for a number of language drivers.

Installing from packages

Linux (Ubuntu)

1. Install runtime dependencies

# you can also choose to install libssl1.1
sudo apt-get install -y libssl1.0.0 

2. Fetch the latest package (check here for latest releases)

wget https://github.com/neo4j-drivers/seabolt/releases/download/v1.7.4/seabolt-1.7.4-Linux-ubuntu-$(lsb_release -rs).deb

3. (optional) Check the sha256 hash of the download matches the published hash

4. Install the package and clean up

dpkg -i seabolt-1.7.4-Linux-ubuntu-$(lsb_release -rs).deb
rm seabolt-1.7.4-Linux-ubuntu-$(lsb_release -rs).deb

Linux and MacOS (tar.gz)

1. Seabolt requires openssl libraries to be present on the system. Most linux distributions have them installed by default and you can use brew install openssl to install it on MacOS. If you

2. Download the package you want to install (check here for latest releases).

3. Extract the package using the following command (assuming that you saved the package as ~/Downloads/seabolt.tar.gz). This command actually skips the top-level folder inside the tar.gz package and extracts its contents into the root folder /.

tar zxvf ~/Downloads/seabolt.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C /

Windows (zip)

1. Download the package you want to install (check here for latest releases).

2. Extract the package using the following powershell script (assuming that you saved the package as C:\Temp\seabolt.zip).

Expand-Archive -Path C:\Temp\seabolt.zip -DestinationPath C:\
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\seabolt-* -Directory | Rename-Item -NewName seabolt

Building from source

This project requires the following tools/libraries to be installed in order to be built. General installation instructions can be found in the following sections.

1. CMake >= 3.12
2. For non-Windows systems OpenSSL Development Libraries (must include static libraries)

Linux (Ubuntu)

1. Install all required components via apt install git build-essential cmake libssl-dev

MacOS X

1. Install XCode,
2. Install XCode Command Line Tools via xcode-select --install
3. Install CMake brew install cmake
4. Install OpenSSL brew install openssl
5. Create an environment variable named OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR that points to the openssl library installation path (default is /usr/local/opt/openssl)

Windows

MSVC

1. Install Visual Studio 2017 with VC++ support
2. Install CMake via choco install cmake --installargs 'ADD_CMAKE_TO_PATH=System'

MINGW

1. Install MSYS2 from https://www.msys2.org/
   • Be sure to install a mingw toolchain into MSYS2 (you can use the following command pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain git subversion mercurial mingw-w64-i686-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake)

Building

Linux / MacOS X

To build the project, run either the make_debug.sh or the make_release.sh script from the project root directory. This will compile and deposit project artifacts in the build/dist directory.

To create distributable packages, invoke cpack in build directory (after make_debug.sh or make_release.sh is completed) and all binary package artifacts will be placed in build/dist-package directory.

Windows

MINGW

To build the project, run either the make_debug.cmd or the make_release.cmd script from the project root directory with MINGW as its first argument. This will compile and deposit project artifacts in the build/dist directories.

make_[debug|release].cmd MINGW

To create distributable packages, invoke make.cmd with your preferred arguments and all binary package artifacts will be placed in build/dist-package directory.

make.cmd MINGW [Debug|Release] x64 package

MSVC

To build the project, run either the make_debug.cmd or the make_release.cmd script from the project root directory with MSVC as its first argument. This will compile and deposit project artifacts in the build/dist directories.

make_[debug|release].cmd MSVC

To create distributable packages, invoke make.cmd with your preferred arguments and all binary package artifacts will be placed in build/dist-package directory.

make.cmd MSVC [Debug|Release] x64 package

Docs

To build the docs, the make_docs.sh script is available. The docs build process uses Sphinx, Breathe and Doxygen. These can be installed as follows:

$ sudo apt install doxygen

$ pip install --user sphinx breathe

Running

Linux / MacOS X

To run a query, use the following...

BOLT_PASSWORD=password build/bin/seabolt-cli run "UNWIND range(1, 1000000) AS n RETURN n"

By default, this will simply display stats for the query execution. The following environment variables can be used:

BOLT_ROUTING=0|1
BOLT_ACCESS_MODE=WRITE|READ
BOLT_SECURE=0|1
BOLT_HOST=<host name, IPv4 or IPv6 address>
BOLT_PORT=7687
BOLT_USER=neo4j
BOLT_PASSWORD=password
BOLT_LOG=0|1|2

Windows (Powershell)

To run a query, use the following...

$env:BOLT_PASSWORD=password
build/bin/(Debug|Release)\seabolt-cli.exe run "UNWIND range(1, 1000000) AS n RETURN n"

By default, this will simply display stats for the query execution. The following environment variables can be used (with Powershell syntax):

$env:BOLT_ROUTING=0|1
$env:BOLT_ACCESS_MODE=WRITE|READ
$env:BOLT_SECURE=0|1
$env:BOLT_HOST=<host name, IPv4 or IPv6 address>
$env:BOLT_PORT=7687
$env:BOLT_USER=neo4j
$env:BOLT_PASSWORD=password
$env:BOLT_LOG=0|1|2