Building the bundles:

To build Jboss Web native libraries you need to download the sources from http://labs.jboss.com/jbossweb/downloads/.

Use tar to extract the sources.

To build you only need to run the buildworld.sh script for example:

cd jboss-native-2.0.0-src; bash build.sh

That should create a tar file in the output subdirectory.

To install just extract it in the home  directory of your Jboss Web installation. For example:

tar zxvf /home/user/TMP/jboss-native-2.0.5-src-ssl/output/jboss-native-2.0.5-linux2-x64.tar.gz

notes:

You need a gnu tar and a C compiler. On Solaris you need the C compiler of SunStudio. (/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc)

The *.so files aren't in the bin/native but in something like bin/META-INF/lib/linux2/x64/.

The *.so files could be moved in bin/native to restore the previous versions behaviour.

Building just the dynamic library:

To build just the tc-native dynamic library download and extract the sources as above.

Change to the native library sources for example:

cd jboss-native-2.0.5-src-ssl/srclib/tomcat-native-1.1.15

Configure using apr-config location:

./configure --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config

Make and install:

make && sudo make install

edit the bin/setenv.sh on jbossweb install directory and add something like:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/apr/lib/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Note that in a lot platforms the package tomcat-native could be with jbossweb, for example in fedora9 use yum to install:

yum install tomcat-native