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This document provides generic information for compiling EncFS.
If you are looking for specific instructions for your distribution,
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take a look at the page
**[Installing EncFS](https://github.com/vgough/encfs/wiki/Installing-Encfs)**
in the wiki.
Compiling EncFS
===============
EncFS uses the CMake toolchain to create makefiles.
Steps to build EncFS:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
Optional, but strongly recommended, is running the test suite
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to verify that the generated binaries work as expected
(runtime: 20 seconds)
make test
The compilation process creates two executables, encfs and encfsctl in
the encfs directory. You can install to in a system directory via
make install
. If the default path (`/usr/local`) is not where you want things
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installed, then set the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX option when running cmake. Eg:
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/local
Encfs and encfsctl can also be installed by hand. They need no special
permissions. You may also want the man pages encfs.1 and encfsctl.1.
Dependencies
============
EncFS depends on a number of libraries:
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* fuse : the userspace filesystem layer
* openssl : used for cryptographic primitives
* tinyxml2 : for reading and writing XML configuration files
* gettext : internationalization support
* libintl : internationalization support
* cmake : version 3.2 or newer
* GNU make or ninja-build : to run the build for cmake
Compiling on Debian and Ubuntu
==============================
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See the automated build static in README.md for current build status on Ubuntu systems.
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The build configuration files (circle.yml) always contains up-to-date
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instructions to build EncFS on Ubuntu distributions.
On Debian Stable, additional installations from Backports branch might be
required (cmake 3.x for example, see https://backports.debian.org/ for instructions).