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Daniel K Bueno 65440f9262 Documentation: Add information on MacOS build prerequisites 
This PR includes information that highlights the importance of
updating Xcode on MacOS. I ran into problems building serenity
on MacOS because I had Xcode installed but not updated in a while.
This triggered seemingly unrelated errors that were easily solved
by updating Xcode.
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Setting up a development environment on macOS

Prerequisites

This installation guide assumes that you have Homebrew and Xcode installed. You need to open Xcode at least once for it to install the required tools.

Before you build, you must set your command line tools to Xcode's tools instead of the ones installed via Homebrew:

sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app

Make sure you also have all the following dependencies installed:

# core
brew install coreutils e2fsprogs qemu bash gcc@11 imagemagick ninja cmake ccache rsync zstd

# (option 1) fuse + ext2
brew install m4 autoconf automake libtool
brew install --cask macfuse
Toolchain/BuildFuseExt2.sh

# (option 2) genext2fs
brew install genext2fs

If you're building on M1 Mac and have Homebrew installed in both Rosetta and native environments, you have to make sure that required packages are installed only in one of the environments. Otherwise, these installations can conflict during the build process, which is manifested in hard to diagnose issues. Building on M1 natively without Rosetta is recommended, as the build process should be faster without Rosetta overhead.

Notes:

  • Installing macfuse for the first time requires enabling its system extension in System Preferences and then restarting your machine. The output from installing macfuse with brew says this, but it's easy to miss.
  • It's important to make sure that Xcode is not only installed but also accordingly updated, otherwise CMake will run into incompatibilities with GCC.