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= Project structure =

Look [wiki:CodeRepositories here] for details.

= Building natively on *NIX =

If building from Git sources, first do a

{{{
$ autoreconf -vi
}}}

If building from a release tarball, you can skip the above step. To configure, build and install OpenVPN, use these commands:

{{{
$ ./configure <configure-options>
$ make
$ make install
}}}

In most cases, you'd use something like this:

{{{
$ ./configure
}}}

If you're using password authentication, you may be interested in support for password stored in (properly protected!) files:

{{{
$ ./configure --enable-password-save
}}}

Or, if you want to use smart cards and such, you should use

{{{
$ ./configure --enable-pkcs11
}}}

= Cross-compiling on *NIX ("generic" subdir) =

Removed, only MSVC builds are currently supported.

= Creating a NSIS installer ("windows-nsis" subdir) =

Removed, only MSI installer is currently supported.

= Code-signing =

[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa387764%28v=vs.85%29.aspx SignTool] is used to sign OpenVPN installer, libraries and executables.. Official OpenVPN releases will be signed with  OpenVPN Technologies, Inc. code signing keys. However, it's fairly easy to build a custom version of OpenVPN and sign it with your own code-signing keys.

= Making the release builds of OpenVPN =

See [wiki:Openvpn2ReleaseProcess].

= External links =

'''Official OpenVPN Git repositories'''

 * https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn
 * https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build
 * https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-vagrant
 * https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows
 * https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa