Installing GLFW on OSX

Question

I've been all over the internet and I simply cannot find a way to install GLFW for OSX and use it with Xcode. A lot of articles use cmake for this, which I tried to install but I still can't access it from the terminal.

I just need a simple step-by-step guide for installing it because I'm going to lose my mind.

Thanks

Solution 1

I use homebrew to install GLFW. Once brew has been configured, use the commands

brew tap homebrew/versions

brew install --build-bottle --static glfw2

Solution 2

If you are still running into trouble with this and want to use homebrew, change the install command to reflect the newer GLFW version (3 as of this writing)

brew tap homebrew/versions

brew install --build-bottle --static glfw3

Comments

[scubadivingfool]

I got "Warning: glfw: --static was deprecated; using --without-shared-library instead!" but the installation worked. Thanks.