Compiling

Read the info documentation (type 'info doc/libsecrm.info') to always get the current information.

LibSecRm, in various versions, has been successfully compiled on the following systems:

• Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux, i686
• Fedora 12 GNU/Linux, i686
• Mandriva 2008.1, 2011 (gcc 4.6.1) GNU/Linux, i686
• OpenMandriva 3.0, 4.2, 4.3 (gcc 11.2.0) GNU/Linux, amd64
• OpenBSD 3.8, i586
• Debian 5.0 GNU/Linux, i686
• Ubuntu (amd64 CPU) as provided by Travis CI: log
• FreeBSD as provided by Travis CI: log
• macOS as provided by Travis CI
• Oracle Solaris 11.4 Build 15 (SunOS 5.11) (gcc 7.3.0), amd64

Requirements for compiling:

• a working C compiler (C++ compilers won't work due to variable casts)
• development package for the C library (like glibc-devel and glibc-headers)
• libdl, the dynamic loading library, with its development package (unless the required functions are in the C library)
• the 'make' program

Type ./configure to configure the library for your system.
Type make to compile the program.
Type make install to install the program. NOTE: 'make install' is NOT recommended. Create and install an RPM package instead, if possible.

The following method names are available:

• Gutmann (method similar to Gutmann's, the default, 36 passes)
• random (shred-like, 25 passes)
• Schneier (Shneier's method, 7 passes, contains ITSG-06)
• DoD (DoD, 3 passes, contains NAVSO P-5239-26 and German Federal Office for Information Security)