Building John The Ripper on OSX.

building-john-the-ripper-osx.md

http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.openwall.john.user/month=20140601

error: No MPI compiler found john the ripper

phusion/passenger#1630 (comment)

brew install openssl
brew link openssl --force

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/208848/install-john-the-ripper-jumbo

git clone https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper jumbo
cd jumbo/src
./configure
make clean && make -s

http://stackoverflow.com/a/17213338/340688

pip install bsddb3

brew link openssl --force now leads to

Warning: Refusing to link: openssl
Linking keg-only openssl means you may end up linking against the insecure,
deprecated system OpenSSL while using the headers from Homebrew's openssl.
Instead, pass the full include/library paths to your compiler e.g.:
  -I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib

From the Install doc: https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/blob/bleeding-jumbo/doc/INSTALL#L154

  1. Install Homebrew:
	http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/
  2. Install Homebrew's gcc and openssl:
	brew install gcc openssl
  3. Make sure /usr/local/bin precedes /usr/bin in your $PATH
  4. Provide the path to GCC and the OpenSSL libraries to the configure script:
        ./configure CC="gcc-6" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib"
  5. Clean old files and make:
        make clean && make

Thanks for the info @mubix!

On High Sierra I had to make a couple of changes, as I was getting the following error during compilation:

checking whether the C compiler works... no

So, I didn't install gcc in Homebrew and then left that flag (CC="gcc-6") out of the compile flags, while also adding the --disable-pkg-config option, so it looked like this:

./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" --disable-pkg-config

You should use $(brew --prefix) when possible instead of hard-coding Homebrew paths.

./configure CPPFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib" --disable-pkg-config

Some great comments here, thanks a bunch to @mubix and @rgov

My mileage varied slightly but in the end this is what worked for me on a 2018 Macbook Pro running Mojave. This was after installing gcc and openssl via brew. Notice the CFLAGS instead of CPPFLAGS

./configure CC="gcc-8" CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib" --disable-pkg-config

Getting stuck on catalina :(

checking additional paths for OpenSSL... none
checking openssl/opensslv.h usability... no
checking openssl/opensslv.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: openssl/opensslv.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: openssl/opensslv.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: openssl/opensslv.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: openssl/opensslv.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: openssl/opensslv.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to john-users mailing list at openwall.com ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------------------------ ##
checking for openssl/opensslv.h... no
configure: error: in `/Users/user/temp/jumbo/src':
configure: error: JtR requires OpenSSL headers being installed
See `config.log' for more details