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dfu-util from source on a Mac without Homebrew

It is possible to compile dfu-util from source, without homebrew, after running the following oneliner on its source tree.

First, obtain a libusb release source .tar.bz2 file. Make sure you are getting the released source code that comes with a configure script, NOT the "Source code (.tar.gz)" that contains an autogen.sh script. Extract it, and run the usual commands within it:

./configure
make -j4
sudo make install

Then, obtain and extract the dfu-util release source tarball, and run the following command within it:

grep -rl '<libusb.h>' | xargs -I file perl -i -pe's/<libusb.h>/<libusb-1.0\/libusb.h>/' file

And proceed with the usual:

./configure
make -j4
sudo make install
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