Chapter 2. Building and Installation

FreeSWITCH is open source software. Basically this means that anyone can obtain, read, compile, mangle, fix, or anything that comes to mind, the raw source code of the application. Many users, especially beginners, will find that dealing with source code is somewhat a daunting task, but rest assured, we are doing our best to make this experience as painless as possible. In the future, we will be adding binary packages into various popular Linux distributions, but for the time being, we will explain how to manually obtain and install FreeSWITCH for Unix and Windows. (For the purpose of this chapter, the terms "Unix-like" and "Linux/Unix" refer not only to Unix and Linux but also to FreeBSD and Max OSX.) Try ...

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