steghide.md

Compile steghide in macOS X

Check if gettext is installed, if not use Homebrew to get it:

$ brew install gettext

Get the gettext library and cpp flags, and configure with those flags:

$ brew info gettext | grep FLAGS
LDFLAGS:  -L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib
CPPFLAGS: -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include
$ LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include ./configure 

Apply this patch:

$ wget -q https://github.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage/raw/master/KEEP/steghide-gcc.patch
$ patch --verbose -p0  < steghide-0.5.1/steghide-gcc.patch

And this other patch to use glibtool and specify the --tag flag:

$ diff -u src/Makefile.old src/Makefile
--- src/Makefile.old	2018-08-06 19:03:10.000000000 -0600
+++ src/Makefile	2018-08-06 19:05:29.000000000 -0600
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
 POSUB = po
 RANLIB = ranlib
 SET_MAKE = 
-SHELL = /bin/sh
+SHELL = /bin/bash
 STRIP = 
 USE_INCLUDED_LIBINTL = no
 USE_INTLDIR_FALSE = 
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
 WavPCMSampleValue.cc error.cc main.cc msg.cc SMDConstructionHeuristic.cc
 
 localedir = $(datadir)/locale
-LIBTOOL = $(SHELL) libtool
+LIBTOOL = $(SHELL) glibtool --tag CXX
 MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = Makefile.in
 subdir = src
 mkinstalldirs = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/mkinstalldirs

Then make :)

$ make
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make all-recursive
Making all in m4
make[2]: Nothing to be done for all'. Making all in intl make[2]: Nothing to be done for all'.
Making all in po
rm -f es.gmo && : -c --statistics -o es.gmo es.po
mv: rename t-es.gmo to es.gmo: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [es.gmo] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

@Scvairy brew link gettext --force helped me to solve this.

Thanks mate. It worked for me. Didn't need to run brew link gettext --force as suggested by @RpCoding, just followed the original tutorial.
@Scvairy, suggest you to delete the directory, clone it again and follow the steps since the beginning

Hi! I'm trying to compile it on OSX 10.9.5. I have installed mcrypt and mhash via brew. Also symlinked both into /usr/lib and /usr/local/opt and still getting this error when trying to configure.

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libmcrypt could not be found on your system. Steghide will be compiled without
support for encryption. You will not be able to extract encrypted data!
libmcrypt can be downloaded from http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/
**********
**********
libmhash could not be found on your system but is needed to compile steghide.
libmhash can be downloaded from http://mhash.sourceforge.net/.
**********
configure: error: libmhash not found

Where should those libraries supposed to be?

Thanks a lot!

I've also tried to install StegHide on OSX and I'm running into issues, mainly when compiling files in the /po directory, has anyone else had success with compiling it with the above method?

@Jason-Ko I've also been trying to compile Steghide on OSX but no success :/ it was throwing me errors even after I've followed everything in the tutorial.

https://github.com/StefanoDeVuono/steghide

$ patch --verbose -p0 < steghide-0.5.1/steghide-gcc.patch zsh: no such file or directory: steghide-0.5.1/steghide-gcc.patch

Also

diff -u src/Makefile.old src/Makefile diff: src/Makefile.old: No such file or directory

I literally ran into every issue on this page, so I'm going to clarify.

1.) Download steghide from their website and save it somewhere you'll remember. Make sure it's the 0.5.1 version. steghide-0.5.1

First error I got when I ran ./configure was similar to the one mentioned by @b4dc0d3d.

**********
libmcrypt could not be found on your system. Steghide will be compiled without
support for encryption. You will not be able to extract encrypted data!
libmcrypt can be downloaded from http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/
**********
**********
libmhash could not be found on your system but is needed to compile steghide.
libmhash can be downloaded from http://mhash.sourceforge.net/.
**********
configure: error: libmhash not found

If you get this error, please go to the specified links in the error (e.g. http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/, http://mhash.sourceforge.net/ ... etc ) and download the files. cd into the folder you just downloaded and run
$ ./configure && make && make check && sudo make install. Do this for each of the ones you download.
cd back into your steghide folder and run the ./configure command again. It should run without errors.
After this follow the steps above.

Fixing the diff: src/Makefile.old: No such file or directory error @QuentaSim got.

When you get to

$ wget -q https://github.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage/raw/master/KEEP/steghide-gcc.patch
$ patch --verbose -p0  < steghide-0.5.1/steghide-gcc.patch

cd into steghide-0.5.1/ before running wget command, then go back one directory (i.e cd ../) and run the patch command.

The whole thing should look similar to

$ cd /place/you/downloaded/steghide-0.5.1
$ wget -q https://github.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage/raw/master/KEEP/steghide-gcc.patch
$ cd ../
$ patch --verbose -p0  < steghide-0.5.1/steghide-gcc.patch

please remember to change /place/you/downloaded/...

Fixing diff: src/Makefile.old: No such file or directory error.

When I got to diff -u src/Makefile.old src/Makefile, I kept getting thediff: src/Makefile.old: No such file or directory error
I couldn't figure out how to get it to work, so I ended up not using that command.
Instead, I cd-ed into the /steghide-0.5.1/src, and change it manually with nano (i.e. nano Makefile ).
This should open a little text-like box in your terminal with a bunch of stuff. Looking at the original instructions, replace everything in red with everything in green inside your Makefile, while in nano.

Once you have changed them, save the file using control-x, press y to confirm changes, and hit enter to keep the file name the same.

Now you can run make in your steghide-0.5.1/ directory and it should work.
I really hope this helps someone out there.

Error when make after patch.

use brew to install libtool
$ brew install libtool

that will give you glibtool. the fixes above would then work.

@sulph68 Thanks, but my mac already install libtool.

@sulph68 Thanks, but my mac already install libtool.
make sure you are editing src/Makefile and not Makefile

Thank you, this works perfectly.

"make check" is revealing a lot of problems with the system tests. Is anyone else running into these?

Hello world

Disipe all you're advice steghide (last version) is not working using High Sierra; but is working good when I install and configure this version :
MacBook-Pro:steghide Apple$ steghide
steghide version 0.4.3

Enjoy

Error when make after patch.

Hello world

Disipe all you're advice steghide (last version) is not working using High Sierra; but is working good when I install and configure this version :
MacBook-Pro:steghide Apple$ steghide
steghide version 0.4.3

Enjoy

Hey excuse me all
can someone can help me to solve this issue ?

steghide: the file format of the file "/Users/Apple/Desktop/edkMac2/img/core-img/logo.png" is not supported.

camillegroult ;)