IVPN Client Desktop is an official IVPN client for Windows and macOS. It divided on two parts:
- IVPN Client Desktop UI (user interface application - this repository)
- IVPN service/daemon (repository ivpn-desktop-daemon)
IVPN Client Desktop UI built using Xamarin.Mac (C#).
IVPN Client Desktop app is distributed on the official site www.ivpn.net.
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.
- Windows 10+
- NSIS installer
- Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019 or Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019 (ensure Windows SDK 10.0 is installed)
- Go 1.13+ (downloads automatically by the build script)
- WiX Toolset (downloads automatically by the build script)
- macOS Mojave 10.14.6
- Xcode Command Line Tools
- Visual Studio for Mac (Xamarin.Mac)
- Go 1.13+
To compile IVPN Desktop it is necessary to have IVPN Daemon for IVPN Client Desktop sources:
- please, checkout ivpn-desktop-daemon repository.
- update path to ivpn-desktop-daemon location in file
Windows/References/config/service_repo_local_path.txt(if necessary)
To compile IVPN Desktop all binaries and create an installer for the whole application - run the batch file from the terminal. Use Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio (required for building native sub-projects).
ivpn-desktop-ui/Windows/References/Installer/build.bat
New compiled installer of IVPN Desktop can be found in folder Windows/References/bin
To compile IVPN Desktop it is necessary to have IVPN Daemon for IVPN Client Desktop sources:
- please, checkout ivpn-desktop-daemon repository.
- update path to ivpn-desktop-daemon location in file
macOS/scripts/config/daemon_repo_local_path.txt(if necessary) - Important: Create text file which contains Apple Developer ID
macOS/scripts/config/devid_certificate.txt. This is required for signing binaries.
To compile IVPN Desktop all binaries and create DMG-installer for it - run the batch file from the terminal:
macOS/scripts/dmg/build.sh
New compiled DMG-installer of IVPN Desktop can be found in folder macOS/scripts/dmg/_compiled.
Note! In order to run application as macOS daemon, the binary must be signed by Apple Developer ID (must be located in macOS/scripts/config/devid_certificate.txt).
Project is using Semantic Versioning (SemVer) for creating release versions.
SemVer is a 3-component system in the format of x.y.z where:
x stands for a major version
y stands for a minor version
z stands for a patch
So we have: Major.Minor.Patch
If you are interested in contributing to IVPN Client Desktop project, please read our Contributing Guidelines.
If you want to report a security problem, please read our Security Policy.
This project is licensed under the GPLv3 - see the License file for details.
See the Authors file for the list of contributors who participated in this project.
See the Acknowledgements file for the list of third party libraries used in this project.