How to compile mcrypt for OS X Mavericks 10.9

Question

I'm having a heck of a time trying to compile mcrypt for OS X Mavericks. I need mcrypt for a website I'm helping develop. I installed Mavericks and then command-line tools for XCode using:

xcode-select --install

That ran an installer. Then I downloaded libmcrypt-2.5.8 and unzipped it. I navigated into the directory and did:

./configure

I don't know what kind of output I should have gotten, but I didn't get any success message either. Just a lot of command-line code. It just stopped and the prompt returned.

Then I did:

make

I get a whole bunch of output with a lot of warnings. The last lines of output are:

creating aestest
Making all in doc
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.

I had an issue with mhash, when I went down the wrong road with mcrypt instead of libmcrypt. I think the error messages are from that. But I don't know how to fix them. I didn't get any errors when I did this on my Mac at home, but I didn't go down the road with mhash then. Thoughts, anyone?

Answer 1

Perhaps not exactly an answer to your question, but I would suggest installing it through MacPorts instead (basically a Mac alternative for apt-get). While of course it should still be possible to manually install mcrypt, but with ports it's as easy as typing sudo ports install mcrypt and everything will be handled for you, including updates and uninstallation if you would ever need to do that.