Our main development platform is RedHat. Curently we use machines running RedHat 7.2 and 7.3. We make sure the package builds and runs on RedHat 8.0 and MAndrake 9.0 systems and plan to upgrade build machine to RedHat 8.0 soon. We run occasional test builds on Solars 8, FreeBSD 4.7 and OpenBSD 3.0, but these are not our main development machines. We could not test it on Debian, SuSe distributions, although we've got positive feedback saying it works there, provided that correct libstdc++ and gtkmm packages are installed.
Generally speaking, you need the following packages:
If your system is configured as "Gnome Workstation" or Ximian Gnome is installed, then you already have proper gtk+, gtkmm and libsigc++ packages. If you are using KDE, then you may need to add these packages.
We build using gtkmm and libsigc++ packages that come with Ximian Gnome. These RPM can be downloaded from their ftp site directly, or obtained as part of Ximian Gnome or using Red Carpet. libsigc++ now comes on disk #2 with RedHat 7.3. Users of RedHat 7.2 systems can also get it from the home page at http://libsigc.sourceforge.net/
libxml2 and libxslt come as part of RedHat 7.3 or can be downloaded from http://xmlsoft.org We recommend using the latest available versions of both libxml2 and libxslt.
Firewall Builder implements number of features which make use of SNMP, therefore you will need ucd-snmp RPM installed, too. RPMs we distribute are built using ucd-snmp v4.2.3 (as of Feb 2002)
Here is the list of recommended packages and where you can get them from:
gtkmm-1.2.8-1 | ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-gnome/redhat-73-i386/ |
gdk-pixbuf-0.16.0 | Ximian Gnome or RedHat updates |
libsigc++-1.0.4-1 | RedHat 7.3 disk #2 or ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-gnome/redhat-73-i386/ |
libxml2-2.4.19 | RedHat 7.3 distribution or ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/redhat/i386/libxml/ |
libxslt-1.0.15-1 | RedHat 7.3 distribution or ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/redhat/i386/libxslt/ |
ucd-snmp-4.2.3 | RedHat distribution |
ucd-snmp-utils-4.2.3 | RedHat distribution |
openssl-0.9.6 | RedHat distribution |
Requirements are pretty much the same as for RH 7.x. Here is the list of packages that need to be installed:
The following packages come with RedHat 8.0:
Unfortunately RedHat 8.0 does not come with libgtkmm and libsigc++ which are needed for fwbuilder. There are different ways you can get around this problem. You can recompile these two libraries yourself, using source rpm packages from earlier RedHat distribution. This can be done, but some tweaking of the source code is required. Sooner or later, RedHat and other vendors are going to start distributing pre-built binary RPMs of these libraries. Mandrake already does that; my experience shows that Mandrake's binary RPMs of these libraries work on RedHat 8.0. Another place where these binary RPM can be found is site http://freshrpms.net/.
Mandrake packages can be found on on www.rpmfind.net:
On http://freshrpms.net/ look under Custom packages : RedHat 8.0 (Psyche), then browse down to gtkmm and libsigc++
Requirements are very similar to those for Red Hat 7.2. If the system is configured as "Gnome Workstation" or Ximian Gnome is installed, the you don't need to add gtk+, gtkmm and libsigc++ packages. If you use KDE, you will need to add these packages though.
Here is the list of recommended packages. All these packages come with standard Mandrake distribution, but you may need to install some of them by hand. What packages need to be installed depends on the configuration of OS. Some of these packages can be found on CD #1, while some others are on CD #2. Use can use rpmdrake to install these.
libglib1.2-1.2.10 |
libstdc++2.10-2.96 |
libgtkmm1.2-1.2.8 |
libgdk-pixbuf2-0.16.0 |
libsigc++1.0-4.0.4 |
libxml2-2.4.16 |
libxslt1-1.0.12 |
libxslt-proc-1.0.12 |
libsnmp0-4.2.3 |
ucd-snmp-utils-4.2.3 |
libopenssl0-0.9.6c |
Here is the list of packages you need to install to run pre-built binary packages on this distribution (all these packages come with Mandrake 9.0):
Another option is to download binary packages built by Mandrake. They follow our releases and add new packages to Cooker. You can find these packages on http://www.rpmfind.net/. Here is the procedure supplied by one of our users:
First of all, you need to establish build environment. You will need to install the same libraries you would need to run our binary distribution, plus development packages of all the same libraries. That is, if you use RedHat or Mandrake, then you would need to install gtkmm-devel in addition to gtkmm RPM, libxml2-devel in addition to libxml2 and so on. See below for the list of packages for other OS and distributions.
We tested with different versions of libxml2 and libxstl starting from libxml2-2.4.0 and libxslt-1.0.0, although we recommend using the latest which at the moment of writing this document are libxml2 2.4.19 and libxslt 1.0.15. Gnome ships with libxml-1.8 but you do not need to remove this one, just install libxml2 in addition, they do not conflict.
You will also need relatively new resolver library (libresolv). I do not know how to determine version of libresolv itself since RedHat now ships it as part of glibc and glibc-devel package. You should be fine if you use any fresh distribution. If your glibc is 2.2 then your copy of libresolv is fine. RedHat 6.2 ships old resolver though, so unfortunately you can not build Firewall Builder with support for advanced DNS features on RedHat 6.2.
Make sure you have both bind and bind-devel packages installed and it should be bind 8 or 9
If you want to be able to use SNMP to collect some information about hosts/firewalls, you need to have ucd-snmp package installed. We tested with version 4.1.3 and newer. Home page: http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/ If snmp library is not installed on your system, then support for features requiring SNMP will be automatically disabled by configure script.
If you would like to build online class reference for the API, then you need to install DOC++ package. Home page: http://docpp.sourceforge.net/. If it is not present no error message will be shown, but class reference will not be generated.
Firewall Builder has been translated into several languages and uses GNU gettext to support internationalization. This means you will need this package on your system to build Firewall Builder. Some OS and distributions come with it by default, while others do not. See below for details.
To build from source, download and unpack two tar.gz archives: libfwbuilder-N.N.N.tar.gz and fwbuilder-M.M.M.tar.gz. First you need to build and install libfwbuilder because fwbuilder depends on it. The build procedure is the same for both modules, so I'll describe it only once using libfwbuilder as an example.
In order to build, you basically need to do the following:
$ zcat libfwbuilder-0.10.8.tar.gz | tar xvf - $ cd libfwbuilder $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local $ make $ su # make install
Note that you should run script autogen.sh instead of configure, this script regenrates configure and number of other autoconf scripts using templates specific your OS and distribution.
This installs the following files on your system (actual directory paths may differ on different OS and distributions and also depend on the value of parameter --prefix given to autogen.sh ):
Once you installed libfwbuilder, you can execute the same sequence of commands for fwbuilder. Module fwbuilder builds and installs the following:
Here is the list of recommended packages for RedHat 7.3 and where you can get them from:
gtkmm-1.2.8-1 | ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-gnome/redhat-73-i386/ |
gtkmm-devel-1.2.8-1 | ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-gnome/redhat-73-i386/ |
gdk-pixbuf-devel-0.16.0 | Ximian Gnome or RedHat updates |
libsigc++-1.0.4-1 | ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-gnome/redhat-73-i386/ |
libsigc++-devel-1.0.4-1 | RedHat 7.3 or http://www.hvrlab.org/pub/gtkmm/ |
libxml2-2.4.19 | RedHat 7.3 or ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/redhat/i386/libxml/ |
libxml2-devel-2.4.19 | RedHat 7.3 or ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/redhat/i386/libxml/ |
libxslt-1.0.15-1 | RedHat 7.3 or ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/redhat/i386/libxslt/ |
libxslt-devel-1.0.15-1 | RedHat 7.3 or ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/redhat/i386/libxslt/ |
doc++-3.4.8-1 | http://docpp.sourceforge.net/download.html |
ucd-snmp-4.2.3 | RedHat distribution |
ucd-snmp-devel-4.2.3 | RedHat distribution |
ucd-snmp-utils-4.2.3 | RedHat distribution |
openssl-0.9.6b | RedHat distribution |
openssl-devel-0.9.6b | RedHat distribution |
gettext-0.11.1 or newer | RedHat distribution |
Generally build environment is the same. Here is the list of packages you will need to build Firewall Builder on RH 8.0:
These packages come with RH 8.0:
get these on www.rpmfind.net:
Here is the list of recommended packages for Mandrake 8.1 and where you can get them from:
libglib1.2-1.2.10 | CD #1 |
libglib1.2-devel-1.2.10 | CD #1 |
libgtkmm1.2-1.2.8 | CD #1 |
libgtkmm1.2-devel-1.2.8 | CD #2 |
libgdk-pixbuf2-0.16.0 | CD #1 |
libgdk-pixbuf2-devel-0.16.0 | CD #2 |
libsigc++1.0-1.0.4 | CD #2 |
libsigc++1.0-devel-1.0.4 | CD #2 |
libxml2-2.4.16 | CD #1 |
libxml2-devel-2.4.16 | CD #2 |
libxslt1-1.0.12 | CD #2 |
libxslt1-devel-1.0.12 | CD #2 |
libsnmp0-4.2.3 | CD #1 |
libsnmp0-devel-4.2.3 | CD #3 |
ucd-snmp-utils-4.2.3 | CD #1 |
ucd-snmp-4.2.3 | CD #2 |
libopenssl0-0.9.6c | CD #1 |
openssl-0.9.6c | CD #1 |
libopenssl0-devel-0.9.6c | CD #2 |
gettext-0.10.40 | CD #2 |
doc++-3.4.8-1 | http://docpp.sourceforge.net/download.html |
We use SGML DocBook to generate HTML version of FAQ, so if you want to regenerate it, you would need openjade and docbook-utils packages as well. These are part of Mandrake Cooker, or you can find them on rpmfind.net.
Again, just like in case of RH 8.0, basic requirements are the same and the only difference is in version numbers. Here is the list:
You need to install GNU development environment, in particular gcc version 2.95.3 or newer, GNU ld which is part of binutils-2.11.2 , GNU make, autoconf, automake, libtool and GNU gettext. These packages can be downloaded from http://www.sunfreeware.com
Here is the list of recommended packages. Precompiled xml2 and xslt libraries for Solaris 8 can be downloaded from this site: http://garypennington.net/libxml2/ The rest can be found either on http://www.unixrealm.com/downloads/ or on http://www.sunfreeware.com
autoconf-2.53 | |
automake-1.6 | |
libtool-1.4 | |
gettext-0.10.37 | GNU gettext |
gcc-2.95.3 | |
binutils-2.11.2 | Need this for GNU ld |
make-3.79.1 | GNU make |
glib-1.2.10 | |
gtk+-1.2.10 | |
gtkmm-1.2.8 | |
gdk-pixbuf-0.13.0 | See comment for libpng below |
libpng-1.0.6 | Do not use any other version; pre-built gdk-pixbuf v0.13 found on SunFreeware.com requires specifically libpng 1.0.6 |
libsigc++-1.0.4 | |
libxml2-2.4.16 | |
libxslt-1.0.12 | |
openssl-0.9.6c | Try openssl_noshared-0.9.6c package if configure does not find openssl even though it is installed |
ucdsnmp-4.2.3 | |
doc++-3.4.2 |
Certain patches are also critical. Make sure you have at least patch 109326 which replaces some header files and libraries we use. It is a good idea to install all latest recommended patches anyway.
Since all the packages downloaded from SunFreeware or Unixworld install in /usr/local, you need to set environment variables PATH to begin with "/usr/local/bin" and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include /usr/local/lib before you run script configure.
We use lots of ports, which were updated with cvsup.
Here is the list of ports that need to be installed before you can compile libfwbuilder and fwbuilder:
Make sure you use gmake to build and set the following environment variables:
export GLIB_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin/glib12-config export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
You need the same packages as for FreeBSD and should be using gmake to build.
As of October 2002 (version 1.0.7) both libfwbuilder and fwbuilder compile and run just fine on systems based on gcc 3.2 (RedHat 8.0 and Mandrake 9.0). Please note that the whole system, including all the libraries, must be compiled with the same compiler. This happens because gcc 3.x uses different name mangling algorithm for C++ code than previous versions of gcc; therefore it produces code that is incompatible with code compiled with previous versions of the compiler. For example, RedHat 8.0 does not ship libraries libsigc++ and libgtkmm which we use for the GUI. You either need to compile these libraries yourself, or use pre-built packages from MAndrake 9.0. Binary packages of these libraries built for RedHat 7.3 won't work!