2.1. RedHat 7.x

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

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)

2.2. RedHat 8.0

Requirements are pretty much the same as for RH 7.x. Here is the list of packages that need to be installed:

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.

Mandrake packages can be found on on www.rpmfind.net:

• libgtkmm1.2-1.2.9-3mdk.i586.rpm

• libsigc++1.0-1.0.4-5mdk.i586.rpm

Another place where these binary RPM can be found is site http://freshrpms.net/ . Look there under Custom packages : RedHat 8.0 (Psyche), then browse down to gtkmm and libsigc++

2.3. RedHat 9.0

Requirements for RedHat 9.0 are just like those for RedHat 8.0. Here is the list of RPMs you need:

2.4. SuSE 8.2

Using our binary RPMs on SuSE 8.2 is easy and requirements are just like for RedHat. SuSE 8.2 does not have libgtkmm and libsigc++ libraries; I recommend using those from Mandrake or http://freshrpms.net/. Here is the list of other packages you would need to install fwbuilder on SuSE 8.2:

2.5. Mandrake 9.0

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:

• go to www.rpmfind.net and click on "Go directly to RPM database"

• type 'fwbuilder' in search box and download newest one listed from Distribution "Mandrake" or "Mandrake Cooker"

• type 'libfwbuilder4' and download the newest one from mandrake or mandrake cooker

• type 'libfwbuilder4-devel' and download the one that matches the one d/l in part 3.

• as root:

  "rpm -Uvh libfwbuilder4*.rpm fwbuilder*.rpm"

2.6. Mandrake 9.1

Here is the list of RPMs you need to have on your system:

3.1. Build Environment and Procedure

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 won't 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 ):

• libraries libfwbd, libfwbuilder, libfwcompiler in ${prefix}/lib

• few documentation files in /usr/share/doc/libfwbuilder-${VERSION}

• XML DTD file fwbuilder.dtd /usr/share/libfwbuilder/

• autoupgrade scripts in /usr/share/libfwbuilder/migration

Once you installed libfwbuilder, you can execute the same sequence of commands for fwbuilder. Module fwbuilder builds and installs the following:

• GUI - executable file "fwbuilder", installed in ${prefix}/bin

• few documentation files in /usr/share/doc/fwbuilder-${VERSION}

• examples in /usr/share/doc/fwbuilder-${VERSION}/examples

• various auxiliary files and scripts in /usr/share/fwbuilder

• locale files in /usr/share/locale/

• man pages in /usr/share/man/

• icons in /usr/share/pixmaps/fwbuilder/

• Policy compiler for iptables - file "fwb_ipt", installed in ${prefix}/bin

• Policy compiler for pf - file "fwb_pf", installed in ${prefix}/bin

• Policy compiler for ipfilter - file "fwb_ipf", installed in ${prefix}/bin

3.2. Special Build Instructions for different OS

export GLIB_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin/glib12-config
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

3.3. Notes on using gcc 3.2

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!