Requirements

System requirements

Ouroboros builds on most POSIX compliant systems. Below you will find instructions for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and OS X. On Windows 10, you can build Ouroboros using the Linux Subsystem for Windows .

You need git to clone the repository. To build Ouroboros, you need cmake, google protocol buffers installed in addition to a C compiler (gcc or clang) and make.

Optionally, you can also install libgcrypt, libssl, fuse, dnsutils and swig.

On GNU/Linux you will need either libgcrypt (≥ 1.7.0) or libssl if your glibc is older than version 2.25.

On OS X, you will need homebrew. Disable System Integrity Protection during the installation and removal of Ouroboros.

Install the dependencies

Debian/Ubuntu Linux:

$ apt-get install git protobuf-c-compiler cmake
$ apt-get install libgcrypt20-dev libssl-dev libfuse-dev dnsutils swig cmake-curses-gui

On some distributions you need to install the protobuf C library explicitly:

$ apt-get install libprotobuf-c-dev

Arch Linux:

$ pacman -S git protobuf-c cmake
$ pacman -S libgcrypt openssl fuse dnsutils swig

FreeBSD 11:

$ pkg install git protobuf-c cmake
$ pkg install libgcrypt openssl fusefs-libs bind-tools swig

Mac OS X Sierra / High Sierra:

$ brew install git protobuf-c cmake
$ brew install libgcrypt openssl swig