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 GNU autoconf / automake toolchain to create makefiles. Also, the configure script is automatically generated using autoreconf.
Compiling EncFS is a three-step process:
autoreconf -if
./configure
make
Optional, but strongly recommended, is running the test suite to verfify 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 use the --prefix option to configure to specify the
install prefix.
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:
openssl fuse boost-serialization gettext libtool libintl
We use Travis CI to automatically build-test every commit:
The Travis configuration file .travis.yml therefore always contains up-to-date instructions to build EncFS on Ubuntu (Travis uses Ubuntu build machines).