Electron Build Steps (OS X)

Follow the instructions below to build Electron on OS X .

Premise

• OS X >= 10.8
• Xcode >= 5.1
• node.js (external)

If you download with Python via Homebrew, you will need to install the following Python module:

• pyobjc

Get the code

$ git clone https://github.com/electron/electron.git

Bootstrapping

Bootstrap scripts are also necessary to download build dependencies to create project files. Note that we are using ninja to build Electron, so no Xcode project was generated.

$ cd electron
$ ./script/bootstrap.py -v

Build

Create Release Debug Target:

$ ./script/build.py

You can create Debug target:

$ ./script/build.py -c D

Once created, out/D Electron.app .

32-bit support

On OS X, building Electron supports only 64-bit, not 32-bit .

Test

Test your modifications to match the project code style, using:

$ ./script/cpplint.py

Test effectiveness use:

$ ./script/test.py