The OpenBSD port of PasswordSafe is currently in BETA. This means that (1) you should take care to keep copies of the database to protect against possible loss of data due to bugs, and (2) there are several unimplemented features. Nonetheless, we feel that this is good enough to release as an early beta to gather feedback from a wider audience.
This has only been tested:
- OpenBSD 7.2 amd64 with wx 3.0
If you build it on a different version/arch (like arm64), please send patches!
- QR codes - OpenBSD doesn't seem to have libqrencode. But has qr-code-generator
Here are the packages/tools required for building "pwsafe".
- archivers/zip
- devel/gmake
- devel/cmake
- devel/googletest
- misc/e2fsprogs-libuuid
- lang/clang38
- textproc/xerces-c3
- x11-toolkits/wxgtk30
- wxWidgets-gtk3
- libmagic
- xerces-c
- gettext-tools (for xgettext, to build helpfiles).
On OpenBSD 7.2, I could not find the 'zip' utility. "pkg_info -Q zip" and all variants of it failed to get anything. Curiously, the 'unzip' binary comes with the os. But 'zip' is somehow missing.
Before you do what's below, check if you already have the "zip" command from somewhere. "which zip" will tell you. If you have "zip" already, skip this step.
There are two ways of dealing with this:
a. Comment out the line that builds helpfiles. This is the least painful way if you don't need PasswworSafe's bundled help content:
add_subdirectory (help) # online help
OR
b. Download the binary zip package "zip-3.0p1.tgz" from one of OpenBSD's mirrors, e.g. https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/packages/amd64/
Install it like this
pkg_add -n zip-3.0p1.tgz # check if it'd install cleanly
pkg_add zip-3.0p1.tgz # actually install it
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Create the build directory
mkdir build; cd build;
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Create the makefiles
cmake -D wxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE=/usr/local/bin/wxgtk2u-3.0-config -D CMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang38 -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++38 ..
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Start the build process
gmake
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Your
pwsafe
binary is inbuild
(your current directory) -
At start you get a warning about the help system. Copy the generated help file of your language (e.g. helpEN.zip) to /usr/share/passwordsafe/help/helpEN.zip.
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If for some reason you cannot use CMake, try the classic Makefile's. Try "gmake unicoderelease" or "gmake unicodedebug" in the pwsafe root dir. Note that you must use gmake: these Makefiles don't work with BSD make. The generated binary will be in src/ui/wxWidgets/GCCUnicode{Release,Debug}/pwsafe
Please submit bugs via https://github.com/pwsafe/pwsafe.
Make sure you include output of uname -a
.