Contents:
REQUIREMENTS
INSTALLATION
libdns
examples
drill
INFORMATION FOR SPECIFIC OPERATING SYSTEMS
Mac OS X
Solaris
KNOWN ISSUES
pyldns
Your Support
Project page:
http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/ldns/
On that page you can also subscribe to the ldns mailing list.
* Development
ldns is mainly developed on Linux and FreeBSD. It is regularly tested to
compile on other systems like Solaris and Mac OS X.
REQUIREMENTS
- OpenSSL (Optional, but needed for features like DNSSEC)
- OpenSSL >= 0.9.7f for DANE support
- OpenSSL >= 1.0.0 for ECDSA and GOST support
- libpcap (Optional, but needed for examples/ldns-dpa)
- (GNU) libtool (in OSX, that's glibtool, not libtool)
- GNU make
INSTALLATION
1. Unpack the tarball
2. cd ldns-<VERSION>
3. ./configure --with-examples --with-drill
(optionally compile python bindings too with: --with-pyldns)
4. make
5. make install
* Building from repository
If you are building from the repository you will need to have (gnu)
autotools like libtool and autoreconf installed. A list of all the commands
needed to build everything can be found in README.git. Note that the actual
commands may be a little bit different on your machine. Most notably, you'll
need to run libtoolize (or glibtoolize). If you skip this step, you'll get
an error about missing config.sub.
* Developers
ldns is developed by the ldns team at NLnet Labs. This team currently
consists of:
o Willem Toorop
o Wouter Wijngaards
Former main developers:
o Jelte Jansen
o Miek Gieben
o Matthijs Mekking
* Credits
We have received patches from the following people, thanks!
o Bedrich Kosata
o Erik Rozendaal
o Håkan Olsson
o Jakob Schlyter
o Paul Wouters
o Simon Vallet
o Ondřej Surý
o Karel Slany
o Havard Eidnes
o Leo Baltus
o Dag-Erling Smørgrav
o Felipe Gasper
INFORMATION FOR SPECIFIC OPERATING SYSTEMS
MAC OS X
For MACOSX 10.4 and later, it seems that you have to set the
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable to 10.4 before running
make. Apparently it defaults to 10.1.
This appears to be a known problem in 10.2 to 10.4, see:
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1233.html
for more information.
SOLARIS
In Solaris multi-architecture systems (which have both 32-bit and
64-bit support), it can be a bit taxing to convince the system to
compile in 64-bit mode. Jakob Schlyter has kindly contributed a build
script that sets the right build and link options. You can find it in
contrib/build-solaris.sh
KNOWN ISSUES
A complete list of currently known open issues can be found here:
https://github.com/NLnetLabs/ldns/issues
* pyldns
Compiling pyldns produces many ``unused parameter'' warnings. Those are
harmless and may safely be ignored.
Also, when building with SWIG older than 2.0.4, compiling
pyldns produces many ``missing initializer'' warnings. Those are harmless
too.
