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Simon edited this page Jul 14, 2021 · 24 revisions

Unfortunately there is no official MacOS release.

Read this issue for a more up to date guide https://github.com/alicevision/AliceVision/issues/1071

To build it yourself, you should follow the precise explanation from Ryan Baumann: https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2018/08/17/alicevision_and_meshroom_on_mac_os_x.html

Best use the source code from the 2019.2 release (https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/archive/v2019.2.0.zip / https://github.com/alicevision/AliceVision/archive/v2.2.0.zip) to avoid build problems. The guide has not been tested with more recent releases.

Note: CUDA 10.2 (Toolkit and NVIDIA driver) is the last release to support macOS for developing and running CUDA applications. Support for macOS will not be available starting with the next release of CUDA. https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-toolkit-release-notes/index.html

Apple ditched Nvidia support, so new Macs don`t have a Nvidia GPU and even NVIDIA eGPUs are not supported since MacOS 10.14 (Mojave).

In the future, Apple will switch to ARM CPUs, which will add an additional issue for building, so an official MacOS build becomes even more unlikely.