# The Mellanox MXM communication library## Overview The Mellanox MXM communication library provides support for the Mellanox MXM interface for InfiniBand.## InstallationFor the module we use a RPM distributed by HP.1. Create new directory `/opt/psi/System/mxm/VERSION_merlin`1. Download RPM from https://downloads.linux.hpe.com/sdr/repo/mlnx_ofed/RedHatEnterpriseServer/1. Unpack RPM with `rpm2cpio RPM | cpio -i --make-dirs` somewhere1. copy all files from `opt/mellanox/mxm` to the module directory1. adapt directories in `lib/pkg-config/mxm.pc`1. add new variant to `files/variants`1. run the build-script to install the modulefile and to set the release> **Note:** The shared library `libmxm.so`provided by the RPMs for RHEL 6 cannot be used to compile other software.They requiry GLIBC >= 2.14, but on RHEL 6 only 2.12 is installed!