Lichess Development Onboarding (macOS)

Note that development on macOS is not officially supported by the core team, but several community members have done it successfully.

Follow the Linux setup guide. Please note the following differences:

It is recommended to use the homebrew package manager. Most dependencies can be installed from there.

lila-ws

The following change needs to be made for lila-ws to run correctly on macOS.

X86_64

Edit build.sbt to make the following change (replace the red line with the green contents, without the leading +/- symbol):

-libraryDependencies += "org.reactivemongo"           % "reactivemongo-shaded-native"  % s"$reactivemongoVersion-linux-x86-64"
+libraryDependencies += "org.reactivemongo"           % "reactivemongo-shaded-native"  % s"$reactivemongoVersion-osx-x86-64"

Apple M1

Remove this line from build.sbt:

-libraryDependencies += "org.reactivemongo"           % "reactivemongo-shaded-native"  % s"$reactivemongoVersion-linux-x86-64"

Note that not all features of lila-ws have been thoroughly tested on mac, but it seems to work well enough for testing basic pvp gameplay.