As the PowerDNS Recursor is distributed with a configure script, compiling it is a matter of:
tar xf pdns-recursor-$VERSION.tar.bz2
cd pdns-recursor-$VERSION
./configure
make
make install
There are 3 ways of getting the source.
If you want the bleeding edge, you can clone the repository at GitHub and run autoreconf -vi in the pdns/recursordist directory of the clone.
You can also download snapshot tarballs here.
You can also download releases on the website. These releases are PGP-signed with one of these key-ids:
There is a PGP keyblock with these keys available on https://www.powerdns.com/powerdns-keyblock.asc.
To build the PowerDNS Recursor, a C++ compiler with support for C++ 2011 is required. This means gcc 4.9 and newer and clang 3.5 and newer. Furthermore, the Makefiles require GNU make, not BSD make.
By default, the PowerDNS recursor requires the following libraries and headers:
Several options that can be passed to ./configure can enable and disable different features.
These will require additional dependencies
The PowerDNS Recursor can link with libsodium to support ed25519 (DNSSEC algorithm 15).
To detect libsodium, use the --enable-libsodium configure option.
libdecaf is a library that allows the PowerDNS Recursor to support ed25519 and Ed448 (DNSSEC algorithms 15 and 16).
To detect libdecaf, use the --enable-libdecaf configure option.
The PowerDNS Recursor can log DNS query information over Protocol Buffers. To enable this functionality, install the protobuf library and compiler. The configure script will automatically detect this and bump the Boost version depencency to 1.42.
To disable building this functionality, use --without-protobuf.
During configure, configure will attempt to detect the availibility of systemd or systemd-daemon headers.
To force the use of systemd (and failing configure if the headers do not exist), use --enable-systemd.
To set the directory where the unit files should be installed, use --with-systemd=/path/to/unit/dir.