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This document provides generic information for compiling EncFS.
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If you are looking for specific instructions for your distribution,
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take a look at the page
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**[Installing EncFS](https://github.com/vgough/encfs/wiki/Installing-Encfs)**
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in the wiki.
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Compiling EncFS
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===============
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EncFS uses the CMake toolchain to create makefiles.
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Steps to build EncFS:
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mkdir build
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cd build
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cmake ..
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make
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Optional, but strongly recommended, is running the unit and integration
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tests to verify that the generated binaries work as expected. Unit
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tests will run almost instantly:
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make test
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Integration tests will take ~20 seconds to run and will mount an
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encrypted filesystem and run tests on it:
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make integration
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The compilation process creates two executables, encfs and encfsctl in
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the encfs directory. You can install to in a system directory via
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make install
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. 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:
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cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/local
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Encfs and encfsctl can also be installed by hand. They need no special
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permissions. You may also want the man pages encfs.1 and encfsctl.1.
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Dependencies
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============
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EncFS depends on a number of libraries:
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* fuse : the userspace filesystem layer
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* openssl : used for cryptographic primitives
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* tinyxml2 : for reading and writing XML configuration files
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* gettext : internationalization support
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* libintl : internationalization support
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* cmake : version 3.0.2 (Debian jessie version) or newer
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* GNU make or ninja-build : to run the build for cmake
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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.
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On Debian Stable, additional installations from Backports branch might be
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required (cmake 3.x for example, see https://backports.debian.org/ for instructions).
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