ladybird/Documentation/BuildInstructionsMacOS.md

Setting up a development environment on macOS

Prerequisites

This installation guide assumes that you have Homebrew and Xcode installed. You need to open Xcode at least once for it to install the required tools.

Before you build, you must set your command line tools to Xcode's tools instead of the ones installed via Homebrew:

sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app

Make sure you also have all the following dependencies installed:

# core
brew install coreutils e2fsprogs qemu bash gcc@11 imagemagick ninja cmake ccache rsync

# (option 1) fuse + ext2
brew install m4 autoconf automake libtool
brew install --cask macfuse
Toolchain/BuildFuseExt2.sh

# (option 2) genext2fs
brew install genext2fs

Notes:

• Installing macfuse for the first time requires enabling its system extension in System Preferences and then restarting your machine. The output from installing macfuse with brew says this, but it's easy to miss.