Building

Using brew

Super simple:

brew options sqlcipher

brew install sqlcipher --with-fts

which sqlcipher

If you needed to change options manually you could edit /usr/local/Library/Formula/sqlcipher.rb.

node.js sqlite3

export LDFLAGS="-L`brew --prefix`/opt/sqlcipher/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I`brew --prefix`/opt/sqlcipher/include"
npm install sqlite3 --build-from-source --sqlite_libname=sqlcipher --sqlite=`brew --prefix`

Using git

Still pretty straightforward.

# clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher.git
pushd sqlcipher

# check if there are any interesting options
./configure --help

# CFLAGS will turn on encryption, default temp_store to memory,
# (file usage optional), enable full-text search, link to libcrypto
./configure CFLAGS="-DSQLITE_HAS_CODEC -DSQLITE_TEMP_STORE=2 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3 -lcrypto"

# just to be sure everything is in the initial state
make clean

# use as many CPUs as exist
# (you could also use 'sysctl -n hw.physicalcpu', which would not include 'logical' cores)
time make -j $(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)

It's a pretty quick compile

real  0m6.988s
user  0m5.786s
sys 0m1.537s

And finish up

sudo make install

which sqlcipher

node.js sqlite3

You'll probably need to use io.js. I definitely wouldn't expect this to work with node <= 0.12.

export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/sqlcipher"
export CXXFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/sqlcipher"

npm install sqlite3 --build-from-source --sqlite_libname=sqlcipher --sqlite=/usr/local --verbose

Other

For instructions on RPi or Linux, see Building SQLCipher for RPi 2.

Testing

There are test files at Building SQLCipher for node.js for both standalone sqlcipher and the node sqlcipher.

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