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Building Mac OS binaries

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This guide explains how to build Electron Cash binaries for macOS systems. We build our binaries on El Capitan (10.11.6) as building it on High Sierra makes the binaries incompatible with older versions.

This assumes that the Xcode Command Line tools (and thus git) are already installed. You can install older (and newer!) versions of Xcode from Apple provided you have a devloper account from the Apple developer downloads site.

1. Make sure to freshen git submodules

git submodule update --init

The above ensures that you pull in the zbar, secp256k1, and other submodules.

2. Make sure coreutils is installed

With brew or macports installed, run

brew install coreutils
brew install pyenv

# OR, with macports
sudo port install coreutils

3. Use the provided script to begin building.

./make_osx

Or, if you wish to sign the app when building, provide an Apple developer identity installed on the system for signing:

./make_osx "Developer ID Application: MY NAME (123456789)"

4. Done

You should see Electron-Cash.app and Electron-Cash-x.y.z.dmg in ../dist/. If you provided an identity for signing, these files can even be distributed to other Macs and they will run there without warnings from GateKeeper.