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# Using spmenu on macOS
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**NOTE: This article is out of date and should no longer be considered accurate
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information. Read at your own risk.**
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spmenu (sort of) supports macOS. This is done through an X11 implementation for
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macOS called [XQuartz](https://www.xquartz.org/). It requires some extra effort
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however.
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## Install Homebrew
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Start by installing Homebrew (the package manager) on your Mac. From there run:
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`brew install libxft libxinerama xquartz libconfig libx11 freetype`. Make sure
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Xquartz is set up and functional before proceeding.
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## Editing the buildconf
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**NOTE: The following instructions only apply to users of spmenu 1.0 and
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greater. Previous versions require a significant amount of work to get
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running.**
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The buildconf is just a shell script that the build script (build.sh) reads. So
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if we want to append any options we simply edit this file. First we need to set
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`PREFIX` to `/usr/local` instead of the default `/usr`. This is because Apple
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as of macOS 10.15 Catalina no longer allows us to write to `/usr/bin` and
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`/usr/share`. This avoids any `Permission denied` errors you may get (yes, even
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with sudo)
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Now we need to set `pango=false`, `pangoxft=false`, `imlib2=false` and
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`openssl=false`. Currently, these features are **not supported** on macOS.
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[Should've installed a better operating system, bud.](https://archlinux.org)
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## Compiling and installing
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Now that we've edited our buildconf, we can simply run `sudo ./build.sh`.
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