Building and Installation

Requirements

To build fpnt, you need to install cmake and a modern C++ compiler (e.g., gcc). In Ubuntu, you can install them using:

sudo apt install cmake build-essential -y

You can build the fpnt source code in either Debug mode or Release mode.

Debug mode provides detailed output during execution.

mkdir build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -S. -Bbuild
cmake --build ./build --config Debug

fpnt built in Release mode prints minimal output during execution for maximum performance.

mkdir build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -S. -Bbuild
cmake --build ./build --config Release

If you want to install fpnt in your home directory, use the following commands. It will install into $HOME/fpnt_release.

sudo cmake --build build --target install
cd $HOME/fpnt_release

If you want to change the root directory of fpnt to path-to-fpnt-root, use the following command for installing fpnt:

sudo cmake --build build --target install -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=path-to-fpnt-root
cd path-to-fpnt-root

After copying your pcap files into the input_mta subdirectory, you can run fpnt with the default MTA configuration.

mkdir input_mta
cp $HOME/traffic.pcap ./input_mta/
fpnt

If you have not installed fpnt, you can run the executable directly from the build directory:

build/standalone/fpnt [OPTIONS]