Building OpenVPN 2.5.2 on older CentOS systems

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jshardlo
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Building OpenVPN 2.5.2 on older CentOS systems

Post by jshardlo » Sat Jun 12, 2021 10:04 am

I just managed to get OpenVPN to build on an older version of CentOS so I thought it might help to share the instructions in case anyone else is trying to do this.

I have been running an older OpenVPN for some time but it was built against the old openssl that came with CentOS 5.

Some time ago I had built openssl 1.1 and installed it under /usr/local/lib so it wouldn't interfere with the system version but I could build new packages against it.

I recently upgraded my openVPN client and it started warning me about deprecated features in my old OpenVPN server so I started to look at upgrading it. I ran into various issues along the way that I won't go into in a lot of detail but the build method that worked for me in the end was this:

Unpacked the tgz file and cd into the directory.

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CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -std=gnu99" ./configure --disable-lzo --disable-plugin-auth-pam

make

make install
It's worth mentioning that without the -std=gnu99 I got a compilation error. I tried a few alternatives to the standard c99 and this was the first one I hit that enabled it to compile without errors.

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