I’ve had some crashes with TrueCrypt on OSX Yosemite. Then I found this post and decided to build my own TrueCrypt.app from source. The advantages should be use of 64bit hardware support hardware-accelerated AES encryption and – as I hope – more stable behaviour when making copies of large files to my exFat formatted TrueCrypt drive.
It seems like a very difficult thing to do but once you get there it’s pretty simple. Here is a walkthrough:
- Install Xcode from the App Store
- Start terminal to install the command line tool for Xcode with
xcode-select –install - Install MacPorts
- Go to terminal and get some build dependencies for MacPorts
sudo port install wxWidgets-3.0 osxfuse nasm wget pkgconfig - Select wxWidgets with:
sudo port select wxWidgets wxWidgets-3.0 - Download the patched TrueCrypt source code from Github
- Find the source directory using ls and cd commands For me it was:
cd Downloads/TrueCrypt-master - Build:
make -j4 - Now you can close Terminal
- Use finder to drag the Truecrypt.app from Downloads/TrueCrypt-master/Main to your applications folder.
Works like a charm. Two sidetones:
- I’m not sure you’ll need step 1 to 5 since the code from Github has already been patched. Need to test it next time
- The GUI is said to be buggy so it’s best to use command line all the way. Then you need to replace step 8 with:
make -j4 NOGUI=1
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Posted on 25 April 2015
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