Building tpm2-abrmd from source on ubuntu-16.04

build-tpm2-abrmd.sh

# On a docker ubuntu:16.04 base image, to build tpm2-abrmd I perform the following commands
sudo apt-get update

# The dependency list is fat here, because its deps for all the various projects, I trimmed it a little bit.
# but know you're getting more than you need.
sudo apt-get install -y \
    autoconf-archive \
    curl \
    libcmocka0 \
    libcmocka-dev \
    net-tools \
    build-essential \
    git \
    pkg-config \
    gcc \
    g++ \
    m4 \
    libtool \
    automake \
    libgcrypt20-dev \
    libssl-dev \
    autoconf \
    gnulib \
    wget \
    doxygen \
    libdbus-1-dev \
    libglib2.0-dev \
    clang-6.0 \
    clang-tools-6.0 \
    pandoc \
    lcov \
    libcurl4-openssl-dev \
    dbus-x11 \
    vim-common \
    libsqlite3-dev \
    libengine-pkcs11-openssl \
    libtasn1-6-dev \
    socat \
    libseccomp-dev \
    expect \
    gawk \
    libyaml-dev \
    opensc \
    libjson-c-dev \
    default-jre \
    default-jdk \
    libnss3-tools \
    uuid-dev \
    gnutls-bin

# If you want clang to be clang-6 and not the super ancient version that comes default
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang clang /usr/bin/clang-6.0 100
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang++ clang++ /usr/bin/clang++-6.0 100
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/scan-build scan-build /usr/bin/scan-build-6.0 100

autoconf_archive=autoconf-archive-2018.03.13
wget "http://mirror.kumi.systems/gnu/autoconf-archive/$autoconf_archive.tar.xz"
tar -xf $autoconf_archive.tar.xz
pushd $autoconf_archive
./configure --prefix=/usr
make -j $(nproc)
sudo make install
popd

uthash="2.1.0"
wget "https://github.com/troydhanson/uthash/archive/v${uthash}.tar.gz"
tar -xf v${uthash}.tar.gz
sudo cp uthash-${uthash}/src/*.h /usr/include/

# Get tpm2-tss
git clone --depth=1 --branch 3.0.3 https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tss.git
pushd tpm2-tss
./bootstrap
./configure --disable-doxygen-doc
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
popd

# get tpm2-abrmd
git clone --depth=1 --branch 2.4.0 https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-abrmd.git
pushd tpm2-abrmd
./bootstrap
./configure --with-dbuspolicydir=/etc/dbus-1/system.d
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
popd

# edit your conf file to add your user
sudo vim /etc/dbus-1/system.d/tpm2-abrmd.conf

# add, replacing USER with your username
#   <policy user="USER">
#    <allow own="com.intel.tss2.Tabrmd"/>
#  </policy>
#

# Have dbus reload its config as instructed in tpm2-abrmd INSTALL file
pkill -HUP dbus-daemon

# get the tools
git clone --depth=1 --branch 5.0 https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tools.git
pushd tpm2-tools
./bootstrap
./configure
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
popd

# I am assuming you have tpm_server installed
tpm_server &

# now this is where it gets weird, in a container, I don't have a *system* dbus running, perhaps the WSL things don't either.
# this creates me a shell with a *session* bus
dbus-launch bash
tpm2-abrmd --allow-root --session --tcti=mssim &

# Since we used a non-standard TCTI config, tell the tools to use the right one
tpm2_getrandom --tcti=tabrmd:bus_type=session --hex 4 
86275bc5