MacOS – CCID installation El Capitan

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I am trying to install ccid-1.4.20 (command line) in an El Capitan enabled MacBook Air, but I am facing some issues. Instructions says that after uncompressing the file, in the generated folder I should do:

  • ./MacOSX/configure
  • make
  • sudo make install

However at the end of the process, I get the following error:

configure: error: libusb.h not found, install libusb or use ./configure LIBUSB_CFLAGS=...
+ rm -f src/Info.plist

So I figured that libusb was missing.

I went to the libusb SourceForge project and downloaded libusb-1.0.19 and proceeded installing it. Here I get no error message(s).

Then I proceeded to retry installing, but I still have the same error. Any ideas?

Material and software used:

  • MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013)
  • 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7
  • 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
  • Mac OS X 10.11 Beta (15A278b)

Best Answer

You may need to tell the configure of ccid where libusb can be found. Install libusb by downloading it and then running

./configure
make
sudo make

Then do the following for ccid:

.configure LIBUSB_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/libusb-1.0 LIBUSB_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -lusb-1.0"

(check the version number first).

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