Build VeraCrypt from source (2017)¶

Disclaimer: This documentation is possibly outdated and only kept for future reference as it may still be of interest to others.

These build instructions for Linux use wxWidgets static library for VeraCrypt.

• Download wxWidgets:

mkdir /scratch/git
cd /scratch/git
wget https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.0.2/wxWidgets-3.0.2.tar.bz2
tar -xjf wxWidgets-3.0.2.tar.bz2
mv wxWidgets-3.0.2 wxWidgets
rm wxWidgets-3.0.2.tar.bz2

• Get the VeraCrypt sources:

git clone git@github.com:veracrypt/VeraCrypt.git veracrypt

Make sure the RSA fingerprint is correct:

SHA256:nThbg6kXUpJWGl7E1IGOCspRomTxdCARLviKw6E5SY8

• Configure the wxWidgets static library for VeraCrypt and build it:

cd veracrypt/src
make clean
make WXSTATIC=1 WX_ROOT=/scratch/git/wxWidgets wxbuild

• Build veracrypt:

make WXSTATIC=1

• If successful, the veracrypt binary should be located in the directory Main.

You can now copy the binary to your preferred location, like ~/bin/:

cp Main/veracrypt ~/bin/

By default, a universal executable supporting both graphical and text user interface (through the switch --text) is built.

On Linux, a console-only executable, which requires no GUI library, can be built using the 'NOGUI' parameter:

make NOGUI=1 WXSTATIC=1 WX_ROOT=/usr/src/wxWidgets wxbuild
make NOGUI=1 WXSTATIC=1