The following steps are the exact steps used to produce the "official" OSX builds of tor Summary: 1) Compile and install a static version of 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". 4) If you have previouslly installed libevent, go rm the old libevent.so* files so the linker doesn't get suckered into using them. ### 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. ## Universal Binaries for OSX PPC and X86 1) Install XCode 2.4 updates. 2) Download the latest libevent from http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ 3) The first step of compiling libevent is to configure it as follows: CFLAGS="-O -g -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386 -arch ppc" \ LDFLAGS="-Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk" \ ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared \ --disable-dependency-tracking 3) Complete the "make" and "make install". You will need to be root, or sudo -s, to complete the "make install". 4) If you have previouslly installed libevent, go rm the old libevent.so* 5) Get your preferred version of the tor source from tor.eff.org. 6) In the top level, this means /path/to/tor/, not tor/contrib/osx, do a configure with these parameters: CFLAGS="-O -g -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386 -arch ppc" \ LDFLAGS="-Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk" \ configure --prefix=/Library/Tor --bindir=/Library/Tor \ --sysconfdir=/Library --enable-static --disable-shared \ --disable-dependency-tracking 7) "make dist-osx"