How to build pfsense?

proff_g33k

Hii all,

As pfsense website says it is open source ,how to get source ,build environment and compile it?

i've followed this link but inside some of instruction links are dead
http://devwiki.pfsense.org/DevelopersBootStrapAndDevIso

So how to get a source code and build it?I am using ubuntu 11.04.

I've also refereed github
https://github.com/bsdperimeter/
for getting source but it has only repositories .If that's it to build is there any "HOW TO" available?

Thanks in advance.

podilarius

First, you cannot use a linux to build BSD. Go get and install freebsd (8.1 for pfsense 2.0 series or 8.3 for pfsense 2.1 series). Once you install that, you should be able to get a bit further with DevelopersBootStranandDevISO instructions.

proff_g33k

Thanks for help.

I'm now working on virtualbox and installed FreeBsd and following the steps

http://devwiki.pfsense.org/DevelopersBootStrapAndDevIso

but at the point
execution of
./build_iso.sh(or selecting build Iso from ./menu.sh) it stucks at "libtool is already build on this run Skipping" and then nothing seems to continue.I've tried build entire code again and again but same thing happens.what to do?

thanks in advance.

podilarius

which version are you trying to build?

proff_g33k

first i tried with FreeBSD 8.1 got same error then now trying in FreeBSD 8.3
.For pfsense version I've selected first form ./menu.sh
RELENG_2_0 FreeBSD 8.1 + RELENG_2_0
It succeded but at point ./build_iso.sh it got stuck.
I've read on forums that RELENG_2_1 should work so tried Option
RELENG_2_1 FreeBSD 8.3 + RELENG_2_1 from ./menu.sh
in both FreeBSD 8.1 and 8.3 but same occurred at time of build_iso.sh as it goes into loop that
libtool is already built on this run .skipping
same for gettext,pkgconf,gmake etc… (in between it builds some packages like perl,cpustatus ,libevent etc..and some of failed to build like p5-Locale-gettext,automake,help2man ..)
may be should i wait to finish?how long?Ia m doing this in virtual box .could that be an issue?So i can arrange separate machine for that.
can you advice which version of FreeBSD and which version of pfsense are stable and can be used to build?
Thanks in advance.