Installing Local Requirements on Mac ARM (ssdeep issues) #356

If you would like to install the requirements locally, and are using a Mac ARM build, you may get an error while installing ssdeep using pip install -r src/python/requirements.txt. I've had luck running this:

1: Install ssdeep with homebrew:

brew install ssdeep

2: List homebrew directories for ssdeep brew ls ssdeep This produces output like

/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ssdeep/2.14.1/bin/ssdeep
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ssdeep/2.14.1/include/ (2 files)
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ssdeep/2.14.1/lib/libfuzzy.2.dylib
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ssdeep/2.14.1/lib/ (2 other files)
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ssdeep/2.14.1/share/man/man1/ssdeep.1

3: Set the LDFLAGS environment variable to the path of the ssdeep lib directory from the output in step 2.

export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ssdeep/2.14.1/lib"

4: Set the C_INCLUDE_PATH environment variable to the path of the ssdeep include directory from the output in step 2.

export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ssdeep/2.14.1/include

5: Install ssdeep from PyPi

export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ssdeep/2.14.1/lib"
BUILD_LIB=1 pip install ssdeep

Note: Users may also need to perform this link prior to installing ssdeep:

brew install libtool automake
ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/glibtoolize /opt/homebrew/bin/libtoolize
BUILD_LIB=1 pip install ssdeep