socat.md

socat

Prerequisites

• A toolchain compatible with the target architecture and operating system.
• OpenSSL if you need TLS/SSL support.

Prepare

Substitute arm-linux-gnueabihf with your toolchain's target triplet.

$ export TARGET=arm-linux-gnueabihf
$ export STATIC_ROOT=`readlink -f ~/${TARGET}-static`

Download

$ wget http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-1.7.3.4.tar.gz

Extract

$ tar xzf socat-1.7.3.4.tar.gz
$ cd socat-1.7.3.4

Patch

$ sed -i -e 's/LIBS="$LIBS -lssl/& -lcrypto -lpthread -ldl/p' configure
$ sed -i -e 's/strip $(PROGS)/$(TARGET)-&/g' Makefile.in

Build

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure --host="${TARGET}" --prefix="${STATIC_ROOT}" \
  CFLAGS="-I${STATIC_ROOT}/include" LDFLAGS="-static -L${STATIC_ROOT}/lib"
$ make
$ make strip
$ make install