minetest/doc/compiling/macos.md

Compiling on MacOS

Requirements

• Homebrew
• Git

Install dependencies with homebrew:

brew install cmake freetype gettext gmp hiredis jpeg-turbo jsoncpp leveldb libogg libpng libvorbis luajit zstd gettext

Download

Download source (this is the URL to the latest of source repository, which might not work at all times) using Git:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minetest/minetest.git
cd minetest

Download Minetest's fork of Irrlicht:

git clone --depth 1 --branch "$(cat misc/irrlichtmt_tag.txt)" https://github.com/minetest/irrlicht.git lib/irrlichtmt

Build

mkdir build
cd build

cmake .. \
    -DCMAKE_FIND_FRAMEWORK=LAST \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../build/macos/ \
    -DRUN_IN_PLACE=FALSE -DENABLE_GETTEXT=TRUE

make -j$(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)
make install

# M1 Macs w/ MacOS >= BigSur
codesign --force --deep -s - macos/minetest.app

Run

open ./build/macos/minetest.app