AviiNL/blender-5.0-intel-mac-build-instructions.md

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Prepare build tools

Install brew
brew install git git-lfs cmake meson ninja

Download blender and dependencies

cd ~
git clone https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender.git --depth=1
cd blender
git checkout tags/v5.0.1 Optionally checkout v5.0.1 for stability
cd lib
git clone https://projects.blender.org/blender/lib-macos_x64.git --depth=1 macos_x64

Download and compile rubberband

cd ~
curl -LO https://projects.blender.org/blender/lib-source/media/branch/main/rubberband-4.0.0.tar.bz2
tar xfv rubberband-4.0.0.tar.bz2
cd rubberband-4.0.0
mkdir build ; cd build
meson -Dprefix=~/blender/lib/macos_x64/rubberband ..
ninja ; ninja install

Finally, compile Blender

cd ~/blender
make

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