yuzu-wiki/Building-for-macOS.md

Dependencies:

It's recommended that you use homebrew to install dependencies. You'll need to download and install the following to build yuzu:

• pkg-config (brew install pkgconfig)
• SDL2 (brew install sdl2)
• Qt5 (brew install qt5) (Note: If you have Qt4 installed, then you will need to remove it before building. brew unlink qt4)
• CMake (brew install cmake)
• A recent version of Xcode and the Xcode command line tools

Cloning yuzu in Git:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu
cd yuzu
git submodule update --init --recursive

Building unicorn:

pushd externals
git clone https://github.com/yuzu-emu/unicorn
cd unicorn
UNICORN_ARCHS=aarch64 ./make.sh macos-universal-no
export UNICORNDIR=$(pwd)
popd

Using CMake:

First of all, you have to tell CMake where your Qt5 is installed (add this line to ~/.profile if you want to make this permanent.):

export Qt5_DIR=$(brew --prefix)/opt/qt5

Now you can generate makefiles for the build:

export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.9
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DUSE_SYSTEM_CURL=ON -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="x86_64;x86_64h" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

This builds a fat binary that has slices targeting early and late x64 machines.

Building yuzu

make -j4

Temporary unicorn fixup:

# copy libunicorn.1.dylib into yuzu.app/Contents/MacOS 
# then run:
install_name_tool -change libunicorn.1.dylib @executable_path/libunicorn.1.dylib yuzu.app/Contents/MacOS/yuzu

A yuzu_qt.app application bundle will now be present under build/src/yuzu_qt/. Note that this is non-portable and only works on your machine.

For portability of the appbundle between machines please refer to this script.