Building RELIC for Charm

The first step is to obtain the RELIC library source from https://code.google.com/p/relic-toolkit/. We provide instructions for how to compile RELIC and the charm pairing module.

1. Download the latest version of RELIC and untar in the charm/charm/core/math/pairing/relic/

2. Change directories into the relic dir and build the library using the provided compile script. Note that this script only builds Barreto-Naehrig curves supported in the RELIC library. The last command may require super-user privileges to install on your system.

   mkdir relic-target

   cd relic-target

   sh ../buildRELIC.sh ../relic-<version>/

3. If there are no errors during RELIC compile/install, you may run configure at the top-level source dir and enable use of RELIC.

   ./configure.sh --enable-pairing-relic

4. You may build and install Charm as usual. These commands may or may not require super-user privileges depending on your environment.

   make

   sudo make install