[SmartcardServices-Dev] SmartCardServices in OSX 10.8

[Frank Marien]

On 08/13/13 22:34, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> If there were a MacPorts package that also provided updated versions of all the pieces from opensc-project + smartcard sniffer + pam_krb5, I would be very interested.
This, I don't know. What I wanted to find out was how hard it would be
to build a functional pcsclite daemon/client libs and CCID libs from
source on OSX, today.

The conclusion was: with just a few tools considered basic on e.g.
GNU/Linux and one lib from macports: very easy indeed.

I basically recall that I needed automake/autoconf (probably ok from the
XCode command-line tools, not sure, I had a bunch of ports already
installed), and libusb..So that's easy..

I suspected as much but since Ludovic has just confirmed this in a
previous post here: pcsc-lite was kept up-to-date in terms of OSX as
well as the other platforms, for internal reasons, but nevertheless:
that work is already done.

>
> It adds up to a lot of surgery on MacOS, so however doable it may be, it seems like too much for anyone outside of Apple.
I agree that while it seems technically very doable, it is Apple's job
to either make good use of all that work, or to make a statement about
what their plans are instead.

-f


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> On Aug 13, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Frank Marien <frank at apsu.be> wrote:
>
>> I don't have the answers to your questions, exactly..
>> What I do know is that despite the fork involved with SmartCardServices,
>> the pcsc-lite project still builds on OSX, out-of-the-box (given
>> macports and proper command-line tools), and it could therefore quite
>> easily be packaged by "a third party" that would require an up-to-date
>> pcscd/ccid combo. We've been investigating doing exactly that and so
>> your scenario may be quite imminent.
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