diff --git a/Building-for-macOS.md b/Building-for-macOS.md index 08efc2e..f29f991 100644 --- a/Building-for-macOS.md +++ b/Building-for-macOS.md @@ -4,10 +4,9 @@ It's recommended that you use [homebrew](http://brew.sh/) to install dependencie You'll need to download and install the following to build Citra: * [CMake](https://cmake.org/) (`brew install cmake`) -* [Qt5](https://www.qt.io/download/) (`brew install qt5`) (**Note:** If you have Qt4 installed, then you will need to remove it before building. `brew unlink qt4`) +* [Python 3](https://www.python.org/) (`brew install python3`) + * The version included with the default developer tools may run into an issue downloading Qt. * A recent version of Xcode and the Xcode command line tools -* **Optional dependencies**: - * [FFmpeg](https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-mac) 4.0+ is needed for HLE AAC Decoding on macOS (`brew install ffmpeg`) ### Cloning Citra in Git: @@ -18,19 +17,13 @@ cd citra ### Using CMake: -First of all, you have to tell CMake where your Qt5 is installed (add this line to ~/.profile if you want to make this permanent.): - -``` -export Qt5_DIR=$(brew --prefix)/opt/qt5 -``` - -Now you can generate makefiles for the build: +Create a build folder and generate makefiles for the build: ``` mkdir build cd build cmake .. -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="x86_64;x86_64h" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ``` - * To enable HLE AAC Decoding, include the cmake flag `-DENABLE_FFMPEG_AUDIO_DECODER=ON` (make sure FFmpeg is installed first.) + * To enable HLE AAC Decoding, include the cmake flag `-DENABLE_FFMPEG_AUDIO_DECODER=ON` This builds a fat binary that has slices targeting early and late x64 machines. @@ -40,17 +33,15 @@ This builds a fat binary that has slices targeting early and late x64 machines. make -j4 ``` -A `citra-qt.app` application bundle will now be present under `build/bin/`. Note that this is non-portable and only works on your machine. - -For portability of the appbundle between machines please refer to [this script](https://github.com/citra-emu/citra/blob/master/.ci/macos/upload.sh). +A `citra-qt.app` application bundle will now be present under `build/bin/`. Note that this is non-portable and only works on your machine. You can create distributable bundles as well by running `make bundle` and checking the output in `build/bundle/`. ### About building on Apple Silicon machines -To build Citra targetting MacOS on ARM, the process is largely the same. +To build Citra targeting macOS on ARM, the process is largely the same. A few things to note are: * Make sure the Homebrew version you have installed is the ARM version -* When running the cmake command, you'll want to use this command instead: +* If you are cross-compiling, when running the cmake command you'll want to use this command instead: ``` cmake .. -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="arm64" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ``` -You can similarly enable HLE AAC decoding by appending the flag `-DENABLE_FFMPEG_AUDIO_DECODER=ON` to the cmake command. \ No newline at end of file +You can similarly enable HLE AAC decoding by appending the flag `-DENABLE_FFMPEG_AUDIO_DECODER=ON` to the `cmake` command. \ No newline at end of file