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:
openssl fuse tinyxml2 gettext libintl librlog
We use separate Drone.io and CircleCi builds to automatically test every commit. See the README.md file for current build status.
The build configuration files (.drone.yml and circle.yml) therefore always contains up-to-date instructions to build EncFS on Ubuntu distributions.