2.6. Compiling from Source

Firewall Builder can be compiled and works on the following OS and distributions:

• Debian Linux (including Ubuntu)

• Mandrake Linux

• RedHat Linux

• SuSE Linux

• Gentoo Linux

• FreeBSD

• OpenBSD

• Mac OS X

• Solaris

To compile from source, first download dependencies for your platform:

For RedHat-based systems:

• automake

• autoconf

• libtool

• libxml2-devel

• libxslt-devel

• net-snmp-devel

• qt

• qt-devel

• qt-x11

You may need to install packages elfutils-libelf and elfutils-libelf-devel (libelf on SuSE), otherwise libfwbuilder won't pick up net-snmp library even if it is installed.

For Debian-based systems:

• automake

• autoconf

• libtool

• libxml2-dev

• libxslt-dev

• libsnmp-dev

• libqt4-core

• libqt4-dev

• libqt4-gui

• qt4-dev-tools

Next, download source archives from SourceForge (libfwbuilder-3.0.0.tar.gz and fwbuilder-3.0.0.tar.gz, for example) and unpack them somewhere. Then build as follows:

cd libfwbuilder-<version_number>
./autogen.sh
make
make install

cd /fwbuilder-<version_number>
./autogen.sh
make
make install

The configure scripts for both libfwbuilder and fwbuilder tries to find your QT4 installation in several more-or-less standard places. However, if you installed QT in a directory where the script can't find it, you can provide the path to it using the --with-qtdir option to script autogen.sh. This looks as follows:

cd libfwbuilder-<version_number>
./autogen.sh --with-qtdir=/opt/qt4
make
make install
      
cd /fwbuilder-<version_number>
./autogen.sh --with-qtdir=/opt/qt4
make
make install
    

By default script configure assumes prefix="/usr/local" and installs libfwbuilder libraries in /usr/local/lib and binaries in /usr/local/bin. Make sure /usr/local/lib is added to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable or to the /etc/ld.so.conf configuration file, otherwise the program won't find dynamic libraries there. Likewise, /usr/local/bin needs to be in your PATH.

You can install libraries and binaries in a different place by specifying new prefix as follows:

./autogen.sh --prefix="/opt"
    

This will install libraries in /opt/lib and the program in /opt/bin.