This document provides generic information for compiling EncFS.
If you are looking for specific instructions for your distribution, take a look at the page Installing EncFS in the wiki.
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 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
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.
EncFS depends on a number of libraries:
* 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
See the automated build static in README.md for current build status on Ubuntu systems.
The build configuration files (circle.yml) always contains up-to-date 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).