8 INFORMATION FOR SPECIFIC OPERATING SYSTEMS
16 http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/ldns/
17 On that page you can also subscribe to the ldns mailing list.
20 ldns is mainly developed on Linux and FreeBSD. It is regularly tested to
21 compile on other systems like Solaris and Mac OS X.
24 - OpenSSL (Optional, but needed for features like DNSSEC)
25 - libpcap (Optional, but needed for examples/ldns-dpa)
26 - (GNU) libtool (in OSX, that's glibtool, not libtool)
33 4. gmake (it needs gnu make to compile, on systems where GNU make is the
34 default you can just use 'make')
36 6. Optional. (cd examples; ./configure; gmake), make example programs included.
37 7. Optional. (cd drill; ./configure; gmake; gmake install), to build drill.
39 You can configure and compile it in a separate build directory.
42 There are some examples and dns related tools in the examples/ directory.
43 These can be built with:
45 2. ./configure [--with-ldns=<path to ldns installation or build>]
49 Drill can be built with:
51 2. ./configure [--with-ldns=<path to ldns installation or build>]
54 Note that you need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH if you want to run the binaries
55 and you have not installed the library to a system directory. You can use
56 the make target all-static for the examples to run them if you don't want to
60 * Building from subversion repository
62 If you are building from the repository you will need to have (gnu)
63 autotools like libtool and autoreconf installed. A list of all the commands
64 needed to build everything can be found in README.svn. Note that the actual
65 commands may be a little bit different on your machine. Most notable, you'll need to run libtoolize (or glibtoolize), if you skip this step, you'll get an error about missing config.sub.
68 ldns is developed by the ldns team at NLnet Labs. This team currently
74 Former main developers:
79 We have received patches from the following people, thanks!
89 INFORMATION FOR SPECIFIC OPERATING SYSTEMS
93 For MACOSX 10.4 and later, it seems that you have to set the
94 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable to 10.4 before running
95 make. Apparently it defaults to 10.1.
97 This appears to be a known problem in 10.2 to 10.4, see:
98 http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1233.html
104 In Solaris multi-architecture systems (that have both 32-bit and
105 64-bit support), it can be a bit taxing to convince the system to
106 compile in 64-bit mode. Jakob Schlyter has kindly contributed a build
107 script that sets the right build and link options. You can find it in
108 contrib/build-solaris.sh
112 A complete list of currently known open issues can be found here:
113 http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/ldns/bugs
116 Compiling pyldns produces many ``unused parameter'' warnings. Those are
117 harmless and may safely be ignored.
118 Also when building with Swig which version is before 2.0.4, compiling
119 pyldns produces many ``missing initializer'' warnings. Those are harmless
123 NLnet Labs offers all of its software products as open source, most are
124 published under a BDS license. You can download them, not only from the
125 NLnet Labs website but also through the various OS distributions for
126 which NSD, ldns, and Unbound are packaged. We therefore have little idea
127 who uses our software in production environments and have no direct ties
128 with 'our customers'.
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131 whether you use one of our products in your production environment,
132 what that environment looks like, and maybe even share some praise.
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