Compile OpenSSH Portable on OSX / MacOS

macos-openssh-portable.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

brew install openssl

git clone git://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git
cd openssh

# The './configure' script does not exist, so we have to build it
autoreconf

mkdir dist

# Get the dir of the openssl install...
BREW_OPENSSL_DIR="$(brew --prefix openssl)"
# If you can't get the command above to work... try one of these:
# BREW_OPENSSL_DIR=/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl
# BREW_OPENSSL_DIR=/usr/local/opt/openssl

./configure \
  --prefix="$(pwd)/dist" \
  LDFLAGS="-L${BREW_OPENSSL_DIR}/lib" \
  CPPFLAGS="-I${BREW_OPENSSL_DIR}/include"

make

I needed a fresh install and brew was not working, nor manual normal building.

This is great, thanks!

FYI for people on M1 Macs, homebrew installs in /opt/homebrew, so the configure command is slightly different:

./configure \
  --prefix="$(pwd)/dist" \
  LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl/lib" \
  CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl/include"

@oxtoacart cool! Your comment gave me an idea... thank you!

gist updated to get the install location from brew, instead of hardcoding the path.