.. _compile_macos:

Compiling Fox under macOS
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Requirements
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* XCode

Other requirements (wxWidgets, fftw, cctbx, newmat) will be automatically downloaded and compiled.

Compile Fox
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* First download the linux package for Fox ```Fox-xxxx.tar.bz2``` from
  `GitHub <https://github.com/vincefn/objcryst/releases>`_, and uncompress it.
* Go into the Fox/Fox subdirectory, then compile Fox using ```make -f macosx.mak dist```
* You will get a disk image (\*.dmg) including the Fox application