How to build SoftEther VPN for UNIX

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Requirements

You need to install the following software to build SoftEther VPN for UNIX.

• Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris or Mac OS X
• GNU Compiler Collectipon (gcc) and binary utilities
• GNU Make (gmake)
• GNU C Library (glibc)
• POSIX Threads (pthread)
• OpenSSL (crypto, ssl)
• libiconv
• readline
• ncurses

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For example, the following command helps you to install the above programs on Fedora or CentOS Linux:

yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum -y install readline-devel ncurses-devel openssl-devel

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How to Build

To build the programs from the source code, run the following commands:

./configure
make

If any error occurs, please check the above requirements.

How to Install SoftEther VPN Server, Bridge or Client

To install the vpnserver, vpnbridge and vpnclient programs into the /usr/bin directory, run the following as the root user:

make install

After the installation will complete successfully:

• Execute 'vpnserver start' to run the SoftEther VPN Server background service.
• Execute 'vpnbridge start' to run the SoftEther VPN Bridge background service.
• Execute 'vpnclient start' to run the SoftEther VPN Client background service.
• Execute 'vpncmd' to run SoftEther VPN Command-Line Utility to configure VPN Server, VPN Bridge or VPN Client.

You can also use VPN Server/Client Manager GUI Tool on other Windows PC to connect to VPN services remotely.

You can download the GUI Tools from http://www.softether-download.com/.

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