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How to build GLFW on Mac OSX 10.13 for use in xcode

The Learn OpenGL tutorial said to build it instead of getting a build. That could be done with brew, but could also be done by building the source with cmake. Here’s how I did it.

Compile notes are here

• install cmake. I’m using the gui. $ brew cask install cmake
• download source from here
• extract zip file and move directory to something like ~/dev/native_dependencies/. After doing this, my path is ~/dev/native_dependencies/glfw-3.2.1/....
• create a directory called build in .../native_dependencies/glfw-3.2.1/ so .../native_dependencies/glfw-3.2.1/build/
• open cmake
• browse source to ~/dev/native_dependencies/glfw-3.2.1/
• browse build to ~/dev/native_dependencies/glfw-3.2.1/build/
• configure
  • click “configure”
  • select “Unix makefiles” for generator
  • select “Use default native compilers”
  • click “done”
• This creates a list of entries
• check the BUILD_SHARED_LIBS entry.
• click “generate”
• make
  • go to terminal
  • $ cd ~/dev/native_dependencies/glfw-3.2.1/build/
  • $ make
• dynamic libraries should be built. You should be able to see them in ~/dev/native_dependencies/glfw-3.2.1/build/src/

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