- Xcode with Command Line tools
- The following tools:
ant autoconf automake libtool gettext
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To compile and run unit tests for the current archecture:
ant
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To compile native components only and skip unit tests:
ant native
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To provide an alternate (older) macOS SDK:
ant -DSDKROOT=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.7.sdk
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To cross-compile for an alternate architecture:
# ARM64 (>= 11.0) ant -Dos.prefix=darwin-aarch64 # x86 (<= 10.13) ant -Dos.prefix=darwin-x86 # x86_64 ant -Dos.prefix=darwin-x86-64 # PPC (<= 10.5) ant -Dos.prefix=darwin-ppc # PPC64 ant -Dos.prefix=darwin-ppc64
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Xcode - If you only have the Xcode command line tools installed, and not the full Xcode UI, you may see build errors like this:
native: [exec] xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance
This can be fixed by installing the full Xcode from App Store. Verify your installation by launching Xcode once and running
xcodebuild
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Various build tools are also required. You can install these using brew.
$ brew install autoconf automake libtool gettext
If you are missing these tools, when you build you are likely to see errors like those below:
native: [exec] Generating configure [exec] ./autogen.sh: line 2: exec: autoreconf: not found
or
[exec] Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.69/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326. [exec] autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory
or
[exec] configure.ac:41: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
or
native: [exec] Configuring libffi (x86_64) [exec] configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-static, --disable-shared, --with-pic [exec] configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in