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Installing OSVR for OS X

There are two wasys of installing OSVR-Core in OS X: using Homebrew or compiling it manually. Unless you're planning to contribute code to OSVR-Core itself, installing with Homebrew is the easier method.

Installing using Homebrew

If you don't already have Homebrew installed, install it first following the instructions at http://brew.sh/. You may install OSVR for OS X using our Homebrew repository:

$ brew tap OSVR/osvr
$ brew install osvr-core --HEAD

Once you've installed OSVR-Core using Homebrew, you don't need to build it from source.

Building OSVR from source

  1. Prerequisites. The prerequisites may be installed using Homebrew. If you prefer to install them manually, the list of prerequisites follows:

  1. Acquire the source code. Check out the source code from the OSVR-Core repository.

  2. Create a build directory. To keep the source repository clean of temporary and generated build files, create a separate directory to contain the build. We usually create a directory named build inside the OSVR-Core directory.

    $ mkdir build
$ cd build

  3. Generate a Makefile. Run CMake to generate a Makefile. Set the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable to the location where you would like the OSVR files to be installed:

    $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/osvr

  4. Compile OSVR. Navigate to the build directory you created in step 3 and run make to build OSVR. Optionally run make install to install the OSVR programs, libraries, and sample configuration files.

    $ make
$ make install

Next steps

Support

If you need further assistance with installing OSVR, email us at support@osvr.org.