OSRM source is available via git or source archives, and is built with CMake.

To download from Git, run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend.git
cd osrm-backend
# optionally checkout a particular revision/tag
git checkout v5.27.1

If you would like to build a specific release (optional), you can list the release tags with git tag -l and then checkout a specific tag using git checkout tags/<tag_name>.

OSRM can be built from the source archives available on the releases page. Example:

wget https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/archive/vX.Y.Z.tar.gz
tar -xzf vX.Y.Z.tar.gz
cd osrm-backend-X.Y.Z

See below for required dependencies.

mkdir -p build
cd build

cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build .

# to use Conan for managing dependencies
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DENABLE_CONAN=1

# Afterwards
sudo cmake --build . --target install

For Ubuntu we support two ways of getting dependencies installed:

• Building on Ubuntu - using apt (the default, try this first)

Use the following command to install the dependencies (git is used to fetch the source):

sudo apt-get install git g++ cmake libbz2-dev \
zlib1g-dev libzip-dev libgomp1 liblua5.4-dev \
pkg-config libgdal-dev libboost-all-dev libtbb-dev

Building on older version of Debian requires getting a recent gcc, boost, and other packages. Probably building them from source. It can be done but is unsupported and not recommended. Open a ticket if you need help there.

To compile the source on a Mac, first make sure either the latest Xcode or at least the Xcode command line tools are installed. And ensure you are running a recent version of macOS.

On OS X and Ubuntu systems there are two key modes you can build in:

• ENABLE_CONAN=OFF (default): this most requires all dependencies be installed externally (via homebrew, etc)
• ENABLE_CONAN=ON: this mode fetches most required dependencies automatically (no need to install deps like libboost)

brew install git cmake
git clone https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend.git
cd osrm-backend
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DENABLE_CONAN=ON
make

Please install the homebrew package system. It will provide all necessary dependencies:

brew install boost git cmake libzip libxml2 lua tbb ccache pkg-config

To be able to compile tools:

brew install GDAL

Windows Compilation