storj-filezilla

Developed using RC v1.0.1 storj/uplink-c

FileZilla v3.43.0

Download, Build and Install FileZilla with Storj (RC-v1.0.1) from source:

• Windows 10:
  • Follow the instructions at Compiling FileZilla 3 under Windows upto (and excluding) "Setting up the environment" section
  • Execute the following commands for setting up the environment:

   $ mkdir ~/prefix
   $ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/prefix/bin:$HOME/prefix/lib:/mingw64/bin:/mingw32/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile
   $ echo 'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib/pkgconfig"' >> ~/.profile
   $ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/prefix/bin:$HOME/prefix/lib:/mingw64/bin:/mingw32/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
   $ echo 'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib/pkgconfig"' >> ~/.bash_profile
  

  • Restart the MSYS2 MINGW64 shell.
  • Follow the instructions at Building dependencies upto (and excluding) "Building libfilezilla" section
  • Execute the following commands for building libfilezilla:

   $ cd ~
   $ curl -O https://download.filezilla-project.org/libfilezilla/libfilezilla-0.20.2.tar.bz2
   $ tar xf libfilezilla-0.20.2.tar.bz2
   $ cd libfilezilla-0.20.2
   $ autoreconf -i 
   $ ./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static
   $ make && make install
  

  • Please ensure there are no empty spaces in any folder name!
• Download FileZilla source from the bitbucket:

  $ cd ~
  $ git clone https://github.com/utropicmedia/storj-filezilla.git filezilla
  

• Generate C binding library files for Storj (RC-v1.0.1) management:
  • Please ensure golang is installed
  • storj-uplink-c go package

  $ go get storj.io/uplink-c
  

  • Copy the uplinkc_custom.go file (to be found in just downloaded filezilla/go/ folder) within the $HOME/go/src/storj.io/uplink-c/ folder at your local computer
  • Generate the C binding:

  $ go build -o libuplinkc.a -buildmode=c-archive
  

  • Copy the generated libuplinkc.h, libuplinkc.a, and uplink_definitions.h files to the filezilla/src/storj/ folder in MSYS2
• Build FileZilla from source with Storj feature enable:

   $ cd ~/filezilla
   $ autoreconf -i
   $ ./configure --with-pugixml=builtin --enable-storj
   $ make
  

In order to distribute the application:

• Follow the instructions at Stripping debug symbols upto "Compile the installer script" section

[INFO] List of softwares, packages, libraries, and dependencies to build FileZilla with Storj (RC-v1.0.1) on Windows (64-bit)

• autoconf

• automake

• libtool

• make

• git

• svn

• gmp

  • v6.2.0

• nettle

  • v3.5.1

• zlib

  • v1.2.11

• gnutls

  • v3.6.13

• sqlite

  • v3.25.3

• wxWidgets

  • v3.0.5

• libfilezilla

  • v0.20.2

• Storj (RC-v1.0.1) Dependencies

  • The repository already contains certain libraries (libuplinkc.a, libuplinkc.h) and header files (uplink_definitions.h), generated/taken from the following:
    • golang
    • storj-uplink go package
    • storj-uplinkc go package

• Mac OS X:

  • Follow the instructions at Compiling FileZilla 3 under Mac OS X upto (and excluding) "GnuTLS" section

  • Execute the following commands for building GnuTLS:

   $ cd ~/src
   $ curl -OL ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/gcrypt/gnutls/v3.6/gnutls-3.6.7.1.tar.xz
   $ tar xvf gnutls-3.6.7.1.tar.xz
   $ cd gnutls-3.6.7
   $ ./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --with-included-libtasn1 --without-p11-kit --disable-doc --enable-local-libopts --disable-nls --with-included-unistring --disable-guile
   $ make
  

  • Note: It would show various errors. Just ignore these errors and perform further steps as follows:

   $ cd lib
   $ make install
  

  • Follow the instructions from Compile SQLite upto (and excluding) "Compile wxWidgets" section

  • Execute the following commands for building wxWidgets:

  $ cd ~/src
  $ curl -OL https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.0.4/wxWidgets-3.0.4.tar.bz2
  $ tar xvf wxWidgets-3.0.4.tar.bz2
  $ sed -i '' "s/std::auto_ptr<CaseFolder> pcf(CaseFolderForEncoding());/std::unique_ptr<CaseFolder> pcf(CaseFolderForEncoding());/g" ~/src/wxWidgets-3.0.4/src/stc/scintilla/src/Editor.cxx
  $ cd wxWidgets-3.0.4
  $ ./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-webkit --disable-webview --with-macosx-version-min=10.11
  $ make
  $ make install
  

• Execute the following commands for building libfilezilla:

   $ cd ~/src
   $ curl -OL https://download.filezilla-project.org/libfilezilla/libfilezilla-0.20.2.tar.bz2
   $ tar xf libfilezilla-0.20.2.tar.bz2
   $ cd libfilezilla-0.20.2
   $ ./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static
   $ make
   $ make install
  

  • Please ensure there are no empty spaces in any folder name!

• Download FileZilla source from the bitbucket:

  $ cd ~
  $ git clone https://github.com/utropicmedia/storj-filezilla.git filezilla
  

• Generate C binding library files for Storj (RC-v1.0.1) management:

  • Please ensure golang is installed
  • storj-uplink-c go package

    $ go get storj.io/uplink-c
    

  • Copy the uplinkc_custom.go file (to be found in just downloaded filezilla/go/ folder) within the $HOME/go/src/storj.io/uplink-c/ folder at your local computer
  • Generate the C binding:

    $ go build -o libuplinkc.a -buildmode=c-archive
    

  • Copy the generated libuplinkc.h, libuplinkc.a, and uplink_definitions.h files to the filezilla/src/storj/ folder

• Build FileZilla from source with Storj feature enable:

  $ cd ~/src/filezilla
  $ find . -name \*.m4|xargs dos2unix
  $ find . -name \*.ac|xargs dos2unix
  $ find . -name \*.am|xargs dos2unix
  $ dos2unix data/dylibcopy.sh
  $ autoreconf -i
  $ ./configure --with-pugixml=builtin --enable-storj
  

  • NOTE: In Mac OS X, it may be required to allow execution of data/dylibcop.sh. Hence, please execute the following on the command prompt:

  $ cd data && chmod 777 dylibcopy.sh && cd ..
  $ sudo make
  

  • The generated FileZilla.app application is found within the current 'filezilla' folder itself

In order to distribute the application:

• Copy the FileZilla.app within an empty folder
• Create a disk image (.dmg) file from this folder, by following instructions at Create a disk image from a folder or connected device
• This disk image (.dmg file) can be shared with other Mac users

[INFO] List of softwares, packages, libraries, and dependencies to build FileZilla with Storj (RC-v1.0.1) on MAC OS (64-bit)

• Xcode
• pkg-config
  • v0.29.2
• libidn
  • v1.35
• GMP
  • v6.1.2
• Nettle
  • v3.4.1
• GnuTLS
  • v3.6.7.1
• SQLite
  • v3.26.0
• gettext
  • v0.19.8
• wxWidgets
  • v3.0.4
• libfilezilla
  • v0.20.2

References:

• Compiling FileZilla 3 under Windows
• Compiling FileZilla 3 under macOS
• Create a disk image from a folder or connected device
• About Storj connection with FileZilla
• Storj (RC-v1.0.1) uplink-c

Testing

• The project has been tested on the following operating systems:

• Windows 10 Pro

  • Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-5005U CPU @ 2.00GHz 2.00GHz

• macOS Catalina

  • Version: 10.15.4
  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5