orcaslicer/doc/How to build - Mac OS.md

Building Bambu Studio on MacOS

Enviroment setup

Install Following tools:

• Xcode from app store
• Cmake
• git
• gettext

Cmake, git, gettext can be installed from brew(brew install cmake git gettext)

Building the dependencies

You need to build the dependencies of BambuStudio first. (Only needs for the first time)

Suppose you download the codes into /Users/_username_/work/projects/BambuStudio.

Create a directory to store the built dependencies: /Users/_username_/work/projects/BambuStudio_dep. (Please make sure to replace the username with the one on your computer)

Then:

cd BambuStudio/deps
mkdir build
cd build

Next, for arm64 architecture:

cmake ../ -DDESTDIR="/Users/username/work/projects/BambuStudio_dep" -DOPENSSL_ARCH="darwin64-arm64-cc"
make

Or, for x86 architeccture:

cmake ../ -DDESTDIR="/Users/username/work/projects/BambuStudio_dep" -DOPENSSL_ARCH="darwin64-x86_64-cc"
make -jN

(N can be a number between 1 and the max cpu number)

Building Bambu Studio

Create a directory to store the installed files at /Users/username/work/projects/BambuStudio/install_dir:

cd BambuStudio
mkdir install_dir
mkdir build
cd build

To build using CMake:

cmake ..  -DBBL_RELEASE_TO_PUBLIC=1 -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="/Users/username/work/projects/BambuStudio_dep/usr/local" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="../install_dir" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_MACOSX_RPATH=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH="/Users/username/work/projects/BambuStudio_dep/usr/local" -DCMAKE_MACOSX_BUNDLE=on
cmake --build . --target install --config Release -jN

To build for use with XCode:

cmake .. -GXcode -DBBL_RELEASE_TO_PUBLIC=1 -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="/Users/username/work/projects/BambuStudio_dep/usr/local" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="../install_dir" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_MACOSX_RPATH=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH="/Users/username/work/projects/BambuStudio_dep/usr/local" -DCMAKE_MACOSX_BUNDLE=on