Build instructions

April 18, 2021 ยท View on GitHub

The build instructions will vary somewhat based on your host system. Ubuntu is used as an example.

Installing dependencies

In any case you will need to following dependencies:

  • libmhash-dev
  • libmcrypt-dev
  • libjpeg-dev
    • Can either the independent JPEG version or the libjpeg-turbo version
    • The libjpeg version must be below 9
  • zlib1g-dev

On Ubuntu, all of these packages can be installed using the following command:

sudo apt install libmhash-dev libmcrypt-dev libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev

build tools

The project can be build using cmake. You will need the following tools:

  • make
  • g++
  • cmake
  • git

On Ubuntu, all of these packages can be installed using the following command:

sudo apt install git build-essential cmake

Building Stegseek

First, clone this repo by calling:

git clone https://github.com/RickdeJager/stegseek.git

Next, enter the following commands to build and install Stegseek:

cd stegseek
mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make
sudo make install