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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# get and build nDPI and deps before building fastnetmon
+
+export MAKEFLAGS="$MAKEFLAGS -j$(nproc)"
+export moarflags="-Wno-reorder -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-format-truncation -Wno-implicit-fallthrough -Wno-type-limits -Wno-class-memaccess" # since there's just so many warnings (I know, they should be fixed)
+
+cd src
+git apply patches/cmake-libndpi-nolibicu-cpp17-includes-protoc-grpc.patch
+cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="$CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS -Wall -Werror $moarflags -Wextra"
+make clean fastnetmon all