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Revision as of 08:04, 29 August 2023
Port Status
The Mac OS X port is a Tier 3 Port
The main branch will compile on macOS Monterey (12.6.8) on Intel, but the default shared memory size on this operating system is too small to accommodate the default FreeM shared memory segment size. Reducing the segment size results in the following error:
freem [FATAL]: memory allocation failure in job_init [errno 2 No such file or directory]
Verified Releases
TBD
Build Notes
In order to build FreeM on macOS, you will need to install the following:
- Apple XCode command-line tools
- Homebrew
Then, install the following with the brew package manager:
- automake
- autoconf
- gcc
- libtool
- texinfo
- texi2html
- git
Testing Details
We build the macOS port on the following hardware:
- MacBook Air (Early 2015) running macOS Monterey (12.6.8)
Port Challenges
Apple makes it extremely difficult to build traditional UNIX software, in the name of "security". Also, Apple silicon (M1 and descendants) cannot likely be supported with the current shared memory architecture.
We will most likely support only PowerPC and Intel Macs.
