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Chapter 3. Compiling and Installing

Squid is designed to be portable and should compile on all major Unix systems, including Linux, BSD/OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, OSF/DUNIX/TRU-64, Mac OS/X, IRIX, and AIX. Squid also runs on Microsoft Windows. Please see Appendix E for instructions on compiling and running Squid on Windows.

Compiling Squid is relatively straightforward. If you've installed more than a few open source packages, you're probably already familiar with the procedure. You first use a program called ./configure to probe your system and then a program called make to do the actual compiling.

Before getting to that step, however, let's talk about tuning your system in preparation for Squid. Your operating system may have default resource limits that are too low for Squid to run correctly. Most importantly, you need to worry about the number of available file descriptors.

    Squid. The definitive guide
    		Preface
    		Chapter 1. Introduction
    		Chapter 2. Getting Squid
    		Chapter 3. Compiling and Installing
    		3.1 Before You Start
    		3.2 Unpacking the Source
    		3.3 Pretuning Your Kernel
    		3.4 The configure Script
    		3.5 make
    		3.6 make Install
    		3.7 Applying a Patch
    		3.8 Running configure Later
    		3.9 Exercises
    		Chapter 4. Configuration Guide for the Eager
    		Chapter 5. Running Squid
    		Chapter 6. All About Access Controls
    		Chapter 7. Disk Cache Basics
    		Chapter 8. Advanced Disk Cache Topics
    		Chapter 9. Interception Caching
    		Chapter 10. Talking to Other Squids
    		Chapter 11. Redirectors
    		Chapter 12. Authentication Helpers
    		Chapter 13. Log Files
    		Chapter 14. Monitoring Squid
    		Chapter 15. Server Accelerator Mode
    		Chapter 16. Debugging and Troubleshooting
    		Appendix A. Config File Reference
    		Appendix B. The Memory Cache
    		Appendix C. Delay Pools
    		Appendix D. Filesystem Performance Benchmarks
    		Appendix E. Squid on Windows
    		Appendix F. Configuring Squid Clients

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