Compiling Varnish from source

If there are no binary packages available for your system, or if you want to compile Varnish from source for other reasons, follow these steps:

Getting hold of the source

Download the appropriate release tarball, which you can find on https://varnish-cache.org/releases/ .

Alternatively, if you want to hack on Varnish, you should clone our git repository by doing.

git clone https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache

Build dependencies on FreeBSD

To get the dependencies required to build varnish from source you can either:

pkg