Using binary packages

bindfs is available in some Linux distributions' package repositories. At least Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora have it. For OS X it may be easiest to install it using the MacPorts port.

A HowTo has been written for Ubuntu.

Compiling by hand

Make sure you have installed FUSE (or MacFUSE) either by compiling it by hand or by installing a binary. On Linux be sure to also have the development package fuse-dev, fuse-devel or similar if applicable for your distribution.

Compiling and installing bindfs works as usual by doing

1. ./configure
2. make
3. make install (as root)

Troubleshooting

• If you get an "operation not permitted" error on OS X, try this.
• There have been reports of problems with MacFUSE 2.0.3(.2) on Snow Leopard. The MacFUSE distributed through MacPorts may work better.
• If you have installed FUSE (especially MacFUSE) into /usr/local or elsewhere, you might get an error during ./configure about pkg-config not finding FUSE. You can add a directory to pkg-config's search path using the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable. For example:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig (or whichever pkgconfig directory has the fuse.pc file).

• More advice about compiling and using bindfs on a Mac, as well as a precompiled OS X binary, can be found on Dmitry Dulepov's blog.