Perforce Open Source Command Line and API

This is the source code for the Perforce command line and API. See LICENSE for all licensing information.

Dependencies

Outside of a C/C++ compiler you will need Jam (Just Another Make), a build system written by Christopher Seiwald. A source bundle can be found here:

https://swarm.workshop.perforce.com/projects/perforce-software-jam/download/main/jam-2.6.zip

To build the Perforce command line interface

From the root of the p4 source run:

jam p4

Jam may ask you to specify an OS version if it cannot determine it. For example on OS X running 'jam p4' will return:

Set OSVER to 104, 105, or 106 for MACOSX 

To set any options in Jam use the '-s' flag. For the example above you would run:

jam -sOSVER=106 p4

Builds will be placed in a directory called 'p4-bin/bin.[OS][OSVER]' at the same level as your p4 directory.

Building with SSL server support

If you wish to build p4 with support for SSL servers you will need to add '-sSSL=yes' to the Jam call and place builds of libssl and libcrypto from OpenSSL 1.0.1g into the 'p4-bin/lib.[OS][OSVER]' where 'p4-bin' is the same directory mentioned above.

To build the Perforce API

From the root of the p4 source run:

jam -sPRODUCTION=1 p4api.tar

As with building p4, Jam may ask you to specify an OS version.