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Build OSX
Last Updated on July 3, 2020
Please read the general build guide for information on dependencies required for all platforms. Only macOS specific instructions are found in this document.
Homebrew
Homebrew is an excellent package manager for macOS. It makes install of some Vircadia dependencies very simple.
brew install cmake openssl npm
Python 3
Download an install Python 3.6.6 or higher from here.
Execute the Update Shell Profile.command script that is provided with the installer.
OSX SDK
You will need the OSX SDK for building. The easiest way to get this is to install Xcode from the App Store.
OpenSSL
Assuming you've installed OpenSSL using the homebrew instructions above, you'll need to set OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR so CMake can find your installations.
For OpenSSL installed via homebrew, set OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR via
export OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=/usr/local/opt/openssl
or by appending -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=/usr/local/opt/openssl to cmake
Xcode
If Xcode is your editor of choice, you can ask CMake to generate Xcode project files instead of Unix Makefiles.
cmake .. -G Xcode
If cmake complains about Python 3 being missing, you may need to update your CMake binary with command brew upgrade cmake, or by downloading and running the latest CMake installer, depending on how you originally instaled CMake
After running cmake, you will have the make files or Xcode project file necessary to build all of the components. Open the hifi.xcodeproj file, choose ALL_BUILD from the Product > Scheme menu (or target drop down), and click Run.
If the build completes successfully, you will have built targets for all components located in the build/${target_name}/Debug directories.
make
If you build with make rather than Xcode, you can append -j4for assigning more threads. The number indicates the number of threads, e.g. 4.