Close your Terminal, and enter in a new one: Install MacPorts (a standard Installer package is provided). Step 3: Install required software To install the prerequisite software using Macports do the following: You should now have two folders “haiku” and “buildtools” into the mounted disk image. Git clone Checkout the source code: git clone git:///haiku Or (if the git protocol is blocked by a firewall, or if you prefer to access the source through an encrypted channel): In this case, it is named “Haiku”, so if you chose another name, use it instead of “Haiku” after “/Volumes/”.Ĭheckout the buildtools: git clone git:///buildtools “/Volumes/Haiku” refers here (and in all this tutorial) to the mounted disk image name. Open a Terminal (in /Application/Utilities), and enter: Step 2: Fetching the buildtools and the Haiku source code If you want to remount it later, just double-click on the image file. The image is automatically mounted on the Desktop.

Format: Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive).

Only the consumed space on the image will be used on your hard drive, so don’t be afraid of setting a big value.

Size: Haiku sources, compiled objects and the resulting Haiku disk image will take around 2.7 GB, but you should put more (8 GB for instance), especially if you want to add optional packages to the image.

It should not contain special characters or spaces.

Click “New Image”, and enter the following parameters:.

Open Disk Utility (in /Application/Utilities).

If your Mac OS X partition is not in case-sensitive HFS+ (which is very likely), you need to create a case-sensitive disk image and put Haiku buildtools and source code on it. This causes troubles during the build of some Haiku components, because of wrong headers inclusion (“String.h” (from Haiku) instead of “string.h” (from the system) for instance). The Mac OS file system, HFS+, is case-insensitive by default.

Fetching the buildtools and the Haiku source code.

MacPorts or Homebrew will also be requiredįollow the steps in order to build Haiku on Mac OS X.

You must be logged in as administrator to install some tools.

You will need the Xcode Tools: use the installer on your Mac OS X Install DVD, or download the latest version from Apple Developer Connection (free registration required).

At least 3 GB of free space on your hard drive.

The following was tested on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). This was written by Sambuddha Basu or samgtr on IRC.

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