Compile Iperf3 static binary on Gentoo with Self compile Openssl [Unmaintained]

iperf3 static Self compile Openssl.md

iperf3-static - This is no longer maintained new method on my github gist profile

Compiling Iperf3 statically on gentoo and cross-platform compile as well as on other platforms

Some Warnings

• Configure doesn't like spaces in directories

Prep

I presumed you are cd into ~ or $HOME

mkdir Compile_Drop
cd Compile_Drop

Gentoo/Linux

Set USE FLAGS

sudo nano /etc/portage/package.use/openssl and insert the line dev-libs/openssl static-libs

Dependencies

Depedencies x64 sudo emerge openssl sys-devel/gcc sys-libs/glibc

Dependencies x86

sudo emerge openssl[abi_x86_32] --autounmask-write
sudo dispatch-conf
sudo emerge openssl[abi_x86_32]

Dependencies ARM (This step is only necessary if cross Compiling)

sudo emerge crossdev

Then follow this guide https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Crossdev

crossdev --stable -t aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
crossdev --stable -t arm-linux-gnueabi

Compile commands

./bootstrap.sh

Compile x64

./configure --enable-static-bin
make -j$(nproc)
strip -s src/iperf3

Compile x86

export CC="gcc -m32"
export CXX="g++ -m32"
./configure --enable-static-bin
make -j$(nproc)
strip -s src/iperf3

Compile commands for ARM system

Get openssl

unset CC
unset CXX
mkdir opensslARM opensslAARCH64
wget https://www.openssl.org/source/old/3.0/openssl-3.0.12.tar.gz
tar -zxvf openssl-*
cd openssl-3.0.12

Cross compile openssl for ARM

export INSTALL_DIR=~/Compile_Drop/opensslARM # You might want to change this line to a valid directory where you wanna store openssl
./Configure linux-armv4 shared enable-egd threads enable-md2 enable-rc5 --prefix="$INSTALL_DIR" --openssldir="$INSTALL_DIR/openssl" -static --release --cross-compile-prefix=arm-linux-gnueabi-
make -j$(nproc)
make -j$(nproc) depend
make -j$(nproc) install

Cross compile openssl for AARCH64

export INSTALL_DIR=~/Compile_Drop/opensslAARCH64 # You might want to change this line to a valid directory where you wanna store openssl
./Configure linux-aarch64 shared enable-egd threads enable-md2 enable-rc5 --prefix="$INSTALL_DIR" --openssldir="$INSTALL_DIR/openssl" -static --release --cross-compile-prefix=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu- 
make -j$(nproc)
make -j$(nproc) depend
make -j$(nproc) install

Compile ARM (Something is wrong with the ARM cross compiler so only works up to v3.15)

Replace the configure command ./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --enable-static-bin --with-openssl="${HOME}/Compile_Drop/opensslARM" with ./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --enable-static-bin --with-openssl="${HOME}/Compile_Drop/opensslARM" --disable-shared LDFLAGS="-latomic" and compile on ubuntu instead.

change directory to iperf 3

# You might want to change this line to a valid directory where you compiled stored openssl
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --enable-static-bin --with-openssl="${HOME}/Compile_Drop/opensslARM" 
make -j$(nproc)
arm-linux-gnueabi-strip -s src/iperf3

Compile ARM64

# You might want to change this line to a valid directory where you compiled stored openssl
./configure --host=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu --enable-static-bin --with-openssl="${HOME}/Compile_Drop/opensslAARCH64" 
make -j$(nproc)
aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-strip -s src/iperf3

Windows

Compile iperf3 on Windows x64

• Install Cygwin
• Install Wget
• Run these commands

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg
install apt-cyg /bin
apt-cyg install git nano make cmake extra-cmake-modules automake autoconf gcc-core gcc-g++ gdb binutils cygwin-devel w32api-headers w32api-runtime libguile3.0_1 libisl23 libmpc3 libgc1 libffi8
git clone https://github.com/esnet/iperf.git
cd iperf
./configure --enable-static-bin
make -j$(nproc)
make install

Compile iperf3 on Windows x86

• Install Cygwin from https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe via setup-x86.exe --allow-unsupported-windows
• set mirror to: http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2022/11/23/063457
• Install wget
• Run these commands

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg
install apt-cyg /bin
apt-cyg install git nano make cmake extra-cmake-modules automake autoconf gcc-core gcc-g++ gdb binutils cygwin-devel w32api-headers w32api-runtime libguile3.0_1 libisl23 libmpc3 libgc1 libguile2.2_1 libltdl7
git clone https://github.com/esnet/iperf.git
cd iperf
./configure --enable-static-bin
make -j$(nproc)
make install