Add homebrew as macOS install option #506
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(Please note: this is a PR against the
master
branch as it is project documentation)I spent a bit of time over the last day getting direwolf to build using homebrew on macOS. I submitted the formula and it was approved, so direwolf is now available for all to install on macOS with
Homebrew is a modern and widely used package manager on macOS and has largely replaced MacPorts. It works by defining some project metadata as well as some build steps. Here is the direwolf formula reproduced for reference:
The formula will need to be bumped by someone for each new release, but as long as the build system doesn't change, you will always be able to pull the latest build from master using
Note that there are a few changes to the standard build process:
/opt/homebrew
)