How to build SoftEther VPN for UNIX

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

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

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