[How To] Use Cryptopp in Xcode

Crypto++ Library is a free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes. Currently the library contains the following algorithms:

                   algorithm type  name

 authenticated encryption schemes  GCM, CCM, EAX, ChaCha20Poly1305 and
                                   XChaCha20Poly1305

        high speed stream ciphers  ChaCha (8/12/20), ChaCha (IETF), Panama, Salsa20,
                                   Sosemanuk, XSalsa20, XChaCha20

           AES and AES candidates  AES (Rijndael), RC6, MARS, Twofish, Serpent,
                                   CAST-256

                                   ARIA, Blowfish, Camellia, CHAM, HIGHT, IDEA,
                                   Kalyna (128/256/512), LEA, SEED, RC5, SHACAL-2,
              other block ciphers  SIMON (64/128), Skipjack, SPECK (64/128),
                                   Simeck, SM4, Threefish (256/512/1024),
                                   Triple-DES (DES-EDE2 and DES-EDE3), TEA, XTEA

  block cipher modes of operation  ECB, CBC, CBC ciphertext stealing (CTS),
                                   CFB, OFB, counter mode (CTR), XTS

     message authentication codes  BLAKE2s, BLAKE2b, CMAC, CBC-MAC, DMAC, GMAC, HMAC,
                                   Poly1305, Poly1305 (IETF), SipHash, Two-Track-MAC,
                                   VMAC

                                   BLAKE2s, BLAKE2b, Keccack (F1600), SHA-1,
                   hash functions  SHA-2 (224/256/384/512), SHA-3 (224/256/384/512),
                                   SHAKE (128/256), SipHash, SM3, Tiger,
                                   RIPEMD (128/160/256/320), WHIRLPOOL

                                   RSA, DSA, Deterministic DSA, ElGamal,
          public-key cryptography  Nyberg-Rueppel (NR), Rabin-Williams (RW), LUC,
                                   LUCELG, EC-based German Digital Signature (ECGDSA),
                                   DLIES (variants of DHAES), ESIGN

   padding schemes for public-key  PKCS#1 v2.0, OAEP, PSS, PSSR, IEEE P1363
                          systems  EMSA2 and EMSA5

                                   Diffie-Hellman (DH), Unified Diffie-Hellman (DH2),
            key agreement schemes  Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (MQV), Hashed MQV (HMQV),
                                   Fully Hashed MQV (FHMQV), LUCDIF, XTR-DH

      elliptic curve cryptography  ECDSA, Deterministic ECDSA, ed25519, ECNR, ECIES,
                                   ECDH, ECMQV, x25519

          insecure or obsolescent  MD2, MD4, MD5, Panama Hash, DES, ARC4, SEAL
algorithms retained for backwards  3.0, WAKE-OFB, DESX (DES-XEX3), RC2,
     compatibility and historical  SAFER, 3-WAY, GOST, SHARK, CAST-128, Square
                            value

Xcode is Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE). You use Xcode to build apps for Apple products, including iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Mac. Xcode provides tools to manage your entire development workflow—from creating your app to testing, optimizing, and submitting it to the App Store.

Step 1: Download Crypto++ from https://cryptopp.com/#download

Step 2: Unzip crypto840.zip and cd to that directory

Step 3: $ make -j 4

Step 4: $ sudo make install

Step 5: check the install location from previous step, it should be /usr/local/include/cryptopp for header files and /usr/local/lib for libcryptopp.a file

Step 6: Open Xcode and go to properties and search for "Header Search Paths", set /usr/local/include (non-recursive) as the value

Step 7: search for "Library Search Paths" and set it to /usr/local/lib (non-recursive)

Step 8: search for "Other Linker Flags" and set it to -lcryptopp

Similarly you can compile from command line interface using this

g++ -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib yourCode.cpp -lcryptopp