macOS installation

Prerequisites Packages

Install Homebrew

Follow the installation instructions from there: https://brew.sh Note: When installing Brew, the XCode Command Line Tools are also installed.

And then install the following packages:

brew install cmake swig wget

Clone the Github Repository

From a Terminal app, create the development directory in your home directory and clone the repository.

Note: instead of cloning https://github.com/omichel/webots.git, we recommend to create your own fork and clone it, so that you can commit your changes directly on it.

cd
git clone https://github.com/omichel/webots.git
cd webots
git submodule init
git submodule update

Setup your bash profile

Check the content of src/install_scripts/bash_profile.mac and append it at the end of your ~/.bash_profile:

cat src/install_scripts/bash_profile.mac >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

Install Optional Dependencies [ optional ]

If needed, follow these instructions to install optional dependencies.

Build Webots

Compile Webots and automatically download the required resources in the depencencies folder:

make -jX

Note: X represents the number of threads for a speedy multi-threaded compilation. For example, type make -j12 on a CPU with four cores and hyper-threading.

make help displays additional targets for debugging, profiling, cleaning, etc.

Once compiled, type ./webots to launch it.