Installing SciTokens on a Mac

In case I ever have to install SciTokens again, the steps I took to make it work on my mac. The most difficult part of this is installing openssl headers for the jwt python library. I followed the advice on this blog post.

1. Install Homebrew

2. Install openssl:

    brew install openssl
   

3. Download the SciTokens library:

    git clone https://github.com/scitokens/scitokens.git
    cd scitokens
   

4. Create the virtualenv to install the jwt library

    virtualenv jwt
    . jwt/bin/activate
   

5. Install jwt pointing to the Homebrew installed openssl headers:

    env LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib" CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" pip install cryptography PyJWT