I find Homebrew really useful and easy to use, so I definitely recommend to install it to all novice (or advanced) developers, it will boost all the tedious activities of properly install/configure OSS libraries on the Mac! More info about Homebrew here.Ĭan MacPorts and Homebrew coexist on the same system?.Homebrew is a free/open source software package management system that simplifies the installation of software on the Mac OS X operating system.I use it since the beginning of this project and recommend to install it to all OSS developers who wants to work on OSS software using their Macs, more info on Mac Ports here.The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the OS X operating system.Mac has two important “porting” projects where 2 communities of developers are constantly porting OSS (Open Source Software) on the Mac platform: Requirementsįirst of all let’s install the basic requirements: This is a how-to article so I assume you know how to use Mac OS X terminal and commands like sudo. If you don’t have these requirements, please make some practice first or you may end up messing with your Mac. To follow this article you need to have some confidence using Mac OS terminal application and some basic Mac command line experience.
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