Building

Building pcapFS in general

This is a short guideline providing information for building pcapFS independent from your linux distribution (However, when you have an Ubuntu, Kali or Fedora machine, we recommend to just execute install-all-dependencies.sh in the folder scripts/dependencies).

First, you need to install all build tools.
This means, CMake, gcc, binutils, boost (if you can, do it from your packet manager and install boost plus the boost-development packages, otherwise use the install script). If some step is failing, install the regarding build tool (and open a ticket on the bugtracker so we can update the wiki).

Next, install the dependencies accordingly to the helper-scripts. They won't run any make install copying files into your system folders, instead they install all dependencies into the dependencies folder in the project's folder pcapFS/dependencies.

The scripts are located in pcapFS/scripts/dependencies:
(Read the scripts before launching any of them to prove if they fit to your needs and environments)

Change into the directory pcapFS/scripts/dependencies and run the scripts accordingly:

cd pcapFS/scripts/dependencies
./install-cpptoml.sh
./install-openssl.sh
./install-json.sh
./install-pcap-plus-plus.sh
./install-fuse.sh
./install-fusepp.sh

If you could install the boost development packages for your distribution via packetmanager you should be able to build the project, otherwise build it manually as dependency:

./install-boost.sh

Then you can build the project:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j$(nproc)

If any error occurs when building a dependency or the project itself, please open a bugreport.