wget on OS X Lion

I guess wget needs no further introduction.

Too bad its not included on OS X. so here are a few steps in getting it on an OS X Lion.

Download the source code of the latest version of wget from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/
Once downloaded, extract it.. here i downloaded the bzip archive

tar -jxvf wget-1.13.4.tar.bz2

Enter the extracted folder and configure. here we tell wget to configure with openssl instead of the default gnutls which breaks upon configuration

configure --with-ssl=openssl

Compile

make

Install

sudo make install

and now we have wget on OS X Lion

wisu-mbp:wget-1.13.4 wisu$ wget -V
GNU Wget 1.13.4 built on darwin11.3.0.
+digest +https +ipv6 -iri +large-file -nls +ntlm +opie +ssl/openssl 
 
Wgetrc:
/usr/local/etc/wgetrc (system)
Compile: gcc -DHAVE\_CONFIG\_H -DSYSTEM_WGETRC=&#8221;/usr/local/etc/wgetrc&#8221;
-DLOCALEDIR=&#8221;/usr/local/share/locale&#8221; -I. -I../lib -I../lib -O2
-Wall
Link: gcc -O2 -Wall -liconv -lssl -lcrypto -lz -ldl -lz ftp-opie.o openssl.o 
http-ntlm.o ../lib/libgnu.a
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic at xemacs.org>.
Please send bug reports and questions to <bug-wget at gnu.org>.

Have fun!

wget on OS X Lion

Wisu Suntoyo