electron/docs/development/build-instructions-mac.md
Geoff Nixon 75ce386065 10.8+, preexisting node required.
I'm presently giving 10.7 support the old college try (building against the 10.7 SDK with Xcode 5.1, not necessarily supporting the Xcode 4.6 toolchain), but I thought this should be updated in the meantime. It also seems possible to me that the pre-installed node requirement is somewhat accidental. Since we have the source checked out already, it should be rather trivial to build an intermediate "bootstrap" node if there isn't one found in the path. Do it?
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# Build instructions (Mac)
## Prerequisites
* Mac OS X >= 10.8
* [Xcode](https://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/) >= 5.1
* [node.js](http://nodejs.org) (external).
If you are using the python downloaded by Homebrew, you also need to install
following python modules:
* pyobjc
## Getting the code
```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/atom/atom-shell.git
```
## Bootstrapping
The bootstrap script will download all necessary build dependencies and create
build project files. Notice that we're using `ninja` to build `atom-shell` so
there is no Xcode project generated.
```bash
$ cd atom-shell
$ ./script/bootstrap.py
```
## Building
Build both `Release` and `Debug` targets:
```bash
$ ./script/build.py
```
You can also only build the `Debug` target:
```bash
$ ./script/build.py -c Debug
```
After building is done, you can find `Atom.app` under `out/Debug`.
## 32bit support
Currently atom-shell can only be built for 64bit target on OS X, and there is no
plan to support 32bit on OS X in future.
## Tests
```bash
$ ./script/test.py
```