Last Updated on April 30, 2019
Please read the general build guide for information on dependencies required for all platforms. Only macOS specific instructions are found in this document.
Homebrew is an excellent package manager for macOS. It makes install of some High Fidelity dependencies very simple.
brew install cmake openssl
Download an install Python 3.6.6 or higher from here.
Execute the Update Shell Profile.command script that is provided with the installer.
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:
export OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2l
Note that this uses the version from the homebrew formula at the time of this writing, and the version in the path will likely change.
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.