Getting started with wolfssl

First, clone the repository. This is going to take some time.

git clone https://github.com/wolfssl/wolfssl
Cloning into 'wolfssl'...

// will take a few minutes

Enter the directory and run autogen

$ cd autogen.sh
$ sh autogen.sh
glibtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, 'build-aux'.
glibtoolize: copying file 'build-aux/ltmain.sh'
glibtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
glibtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4'
glibtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'
configure.ac:22: installing 'build-aux/compile'
configure.ac:24: installing 'build-aux/config.guess'
configure.ac:24: installing 'build-aux/config.sub'
configure.ac:28: installing 'build-aux/install-sh'
configure.ac:28: installing 'build-aux/missing'
Makefile.am: installing 'build-aux/depcomp'
parallel-tests: installing 'build-aux/test-driver'

After finishing, run the following.

$ ./configure
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
....
   * IoT-Safe:                   no
   * IoT-Safe HWRNG:             no
   * NXP SE050:                  no
   * PSA:                        no

---

$ make check
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -j17  check-recursive
make[2]: warning: -jN forced in submake: disabling jobserver mode.
  CC       wolfcrypt/src/src_libwolfssl_la-hmac.lo
  CC       wolfcrypt/benchmark/benchmark.o
....
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -j17  check-TESTS
make[3]: warning: -jN forced in submake: disabling jobserver mode.
make[4]: warning: -jN forced in submake: disabling jobserver mode.
SKIP: scripts/openssl.test
SKIP: scripts/external.test
PASS: testsuite/testsuite.test
PASS: scripts/resume.test
PASS: scripts/google.test
PASS: scripts/tls13.test
PASS: scripts/unit.test
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for wolfssl 5.5.0
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 7
# PASS:  5
# SKIP:  2
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================

Finally, install the library.

sudo make install
Password:

We can try out sample samples as below.

// In one window
$ ./examples/server/server

// In another
./examples/client/client

Using software like Wireshark, we can see that the server and the client are talking to each other using encrypted data.

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