Installing OSVR for OS X

Install using Homebrew

You may install OSVR for OS X using our Homebrew repository:

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

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:

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

  3. 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
    
  4. 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
    
  5. 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.com.