FirewallBuilder

Firewall Builder can be compiled and works on the following OS and distributions: Debian Linux (including Ubuntu), Mandrake Linux, RedHat Linux, SuSE Linux, Gentoo Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.

To compile from source, first download the dependencies for your platform:

For RedHat-based systems:

You may need to install the packages elfutils-libelf and elfutils-libelf-devel (libelf on SuSE), otherwise libfwbuilder does not pick up the net-snmp library even if it is installed.

For Debian-based systems:

Next, download the source archives from SourceForge, for example fwbuilder-4.2.2.3541.tar.gz, and unpack them to a location. Then build as follows:

cd /fwbuilder-<version_number>
./autogen.sh
make
make install

The configure scripts for fwbuilder tries to find your QT4 installation in several standard places. However, if you installed QT in a directory where the script is unable to find it, you can provide the path to it using the --with-qtdir option to script autogen.sh, as in the following example:

cd /fwbuilder-<version_number>
./autogen.sh --with-qtdir=/opt/qt4
make
make install
    

By default, script configure assumes prefix="/usr/local" and installs libraries in /usr/local/lib and binaries in /usr/local/bin. Make sure /usr/local/lib is added to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable or to the /etc/ld.so.conf configuration file; otherwise the program will be unable to find dynamic libraries there. Likewise, /usr/local/bin must be included in your PATH.

You can install libraries and binaries in a different place by specifying a new prefix, as follows:

./autogen.sh --prefix="/opt"
    

This command installs libraries in /opt/lib and the program in /opt/bin.