Here is a quick review of my attempt to build this tool.
1. Download the latest beta code
user@localhost:~$ wget http://iperf.googlecode.com/files/iperf-3.0b4.tar.gz
2. Extract the code
user@localhost:~$ tar -xvzf iperf-3.0b4.tar.gz
3. With most source code you then have to run the configuration tool for the makefile to be properly built
user@localhost:~$ cd iperf-3.0b4/
user@localhost:~/iperf-3.0b4$ ./configure
This is the output that I got
./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for ranlib... ranlib checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for ar... ar checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking for uuid_create... no checking for uuid_generate... no checking for uuid_generate in -luuid... no configure: error: libuuid is not availableWhat I noticed is that libuuid is not available. So how do we find where we can get libuuid? A google search lead me to this page:
www.debian-administration.org/article/334/Finding_which_package_contains_a_file
and the apt-file tool
4. So let us use apt-file and figure it out and then install the necessary library.
4a. If you don't have apt-file follow the guide available at the link above to install it and prepare, or just do the following
user@localhost:~/iperf-3.0b4$ sudo apt-get install apt-file && sudo apt-file update
4b. Search using apt-file for libuuid
user@localhost:~/iperf-3.0b4$ apt-file search libuuid
cruft: /usr/lib/cruft/filters-unex/libuuid1 drizzle: /usr/lib/drizzle7/libuuid_function_plugin.so drizzle-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/drizzle7/libuuid_function_plugin.so fp-units-base-2.4.4: /usr/lib/fpc/2.4.4/units/x86_64-linux/uuid/libplibuuid.a fp-units-base-2.4.4: /usr/lib/fpc/2.4.4/units/x86_64-linux/uuid/libuuid.o fp-units-base-2.4.4: /usr/lib/fpc/2.4.4/units/x86_64-linux/uuid/libuuid.ppu fpc-source-2.4.4: /usr/share/fpcsrc/2.4.4/packages/uuid/src/libuuid.pp libdata-uuid-libuuid-perl: /usr/share/doc/libdata-uuid-libuuid-perl/changelog.Debian.gz libdata-uuid-libuuid-perl: /usr/share/doc/libdata-uuid-libuuid-perl/copyright libuuid-perl: /usr/share/doc/libuuid-perl/changelog.Debian.gz libuuid-perl: /usr/share/doc/libuuid-perl/copyright libuuid-tiny-perl: /usr/share/doc/libuuid-tiny-perl/changelog.Debian.gz libuuid-tiny-perl: /usr/share/doc/libuuid-tiny-perl/copyright libuuid1: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 libuuid1: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1.3.0 libuuid1: /usr/share/doc/libuuid1/changelog.Debian.gz libuuid1: /usr/share/doc/libuuid1/copyright libuuidm-ocaml-dev: /usr/share/doc/libuuidm-ocaml-dev/README libuuidm-ocaml-dev: /usr/share/doc/libuuidm-ocaml-dev/changelog.Debian.gz libuuidm-ocaml-dev: /usr/share/doc/libuuidm-ocaml-dev/copyright libuuidm-ocaml-dev: /var/lib/ocaml/lintian/libuuidm-ocaml-dev.info libuuidm-ocaml-dev: /var/lib/ocaml/md5sums/libuuidm-ocaml-dev.md5sums libuuidtools-ruby: /usr/share/doc/libuuidtools-ruby/changelog.Debian.gz libuuidtools-ruby: /usr/share/doc/libuuidtools-ruby/copyright libuuidtools-ruby-doc: /usr/share/doc/libuuidtools-ruby-doc/changelog.Debian.gz libuuidtools-ruby-doc: /usr/share/doc/libuuidtools-ruby-doc/copyright libuuidtools-ruby1.8: /usr/share/doc/libuuidtools-ruby1.8/changelog.Debian.gz libuuidtools-ruby1.8: /usr/share/doc/libuuidtools-ruby1.8/copyright libuuidtools-ruby1.9.1: /usr/share/doc/libuuidtools-ruby1.9.1/changelog.Debian.gz libuuidtools-ruby1.9.1: /usr/share/doc/libuuidtools-ruby1.9.1/copyright mingw-w64-dev: /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/lib/libuuid.a mingw-w64-dev: /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib/libuuid.a mingw32-runtime: /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/lib/libuuid.a pandora-build: /usr/share/aclocal/pandora_have_libuuid.m4 uuid-dev: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.a uuid-dev: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so wine1.4-amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wine/libuuid.a
I look at this list and choose uuid-dev
4c. Install the chosen package
user@localhost:~/iperf-3.0b4$ sudo apt-get install uuid-dev
5. Re-run ./configure to confirm success
If no other errors run make to build the tool.
6. user@localhost:~/iperf-3.0b4$ make
Now you can look in the src directory for iperf3 which is a compiled version you can use on the same architure of linux...enjoy the iperf tool
Here is a good site on how to use iperf basics linhost.info/2010/02/iperf-on-windows/. Note: it was written with iperf2 on Windows. Perhaps I will write a quick guide, later, regarding my primary use case for iperf, validating VPN performance.
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