#Setting up pia vpn windows 10 client install#
#Setting up pia vpn windows 10 client driver#

#Setting up pia vpn windows 10 client install#

To build natively on the host, install the following development packages:.If you want Qt Creator, also install Qt from qt.io.PIA's build of Qt is recommended: desktop-dep-build releases.Supported architectures: x86_64, armhf, arm64.Ruby, can be installed using Homebrew with brew install ruby.The VS installer doesn't include the Console Debugger (CDB), which is needed to debug in Qt Creator.Debugger: Install Debugging Tools from the Windows 10 SDK.Install the 'Windows 8.1 SDK and UCRT SDK' to get the UCRT redistributable DLLs for 7/8/8.1.Visual Studio Community 2019 or Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019.Install CMake (under development tools) to use this project in Qt Creator.Git 1.8.2 or later with Git LFS installed.

To recompile any of these, please refer to their corresponding directories and/or repositories for build instructions.

#Setting up pia vpn windows 10 client driver#

The entire product is built using rake, using the supporting framework in the rake/ directory.Дependencies such as OpenVPN and the Windows TAP driver are included as precompiled binaries under the deps directory in this project for convenience. The client is intended to be built on the target platform Windows builds are built on Windows, macOS builds on macOS, and Linux builds on Ubuntu. Qt and Qt Quick tend to be more memory and CPU efficient compared to web-based UI frameworks like Electron or NW.js. The client GUI is based on Qt Quick, which uses declarative markup language and JavaScript and offers hardware accelerated rendering when available. The project uses Qt 5 for cross-platform development, both in the client and daemon. No matter how many users are active on a machine, they control the same single VPN instance and share a single PIA account. The client meanwhile runs in each active user's desktop and consists almost entirely of presentation logic. The daemon runs a single instance on the machine and is responsible for not only network configuration but also settings and account handling, talking to PIA servers as necessary. It consists of an unprivileged thin GUI client (the 'client') and a privileged background service/daemon (the 'daemon'). This is the desktop client for the Private Internet Access VPN service.