The following steps are the exact steps used to produce the "official" OSX builds of tor Summary: 1) Compile and install the latest release of libevent 2) Acquire privoxyosx_setup_3.0.3.zip. Remember where you put this file. 3) Acquire and install your preferred version of tor via "make dist-osx" Details: ### Compiling libevent 1) Download the latest libevent from http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ 2) The first step of compiling libevent is to configure it as follows: ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared 3) Complete the "make" and "make install". You will need to be root, or sudo -s, to complete the "make install". ### Acquiring privoxy 1) Download osx privoxy source from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ijbswa/privoxyosx_setup_3.0.3.zip?download 2) Edit /path/to/tor/contrib/osx/package.sh and confirm PRIVOXY_PKG_ZIP= is set to the correct path to find the file privoxyosx_setup_3.0.3.zip ## Compiling Tor 1) Get your preferred version of the tor source from tor.eff.org. 2) In the top level, this means /path/to/tor/, not tor/contrib/osx, do a configure with these parameters: configure --prefix=/Library/Tor --bindir=/Library/Tor \ --sysconfdir=/Library --enable-static --disable-shared 3) In same top level dir, do a "make dist-osx". There now exists a .dmg file in the same directory. Install from this dmg.