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

Prepare build tools

1. Install brew
2. brew install git git-lfs cmake meson ninja

Download blender and dependencies

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

Download and compile rubberband

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

Finally, compile Blender

1. cd ~/blender
2. make

git checkout tags/v5.0.1 didnt work for me with --depth=1 on the git clone for the blender repo. Worked after I removed --depth=1

meson also complained about the command being ambiguous so i added setup as the first argument to #6 on the download and compile list. I also added a -j10 to make to make it make faster as ive got an 8 core (hyperthreaded so really 16 logical cores) intel mac.

took 35 mins to compile on my MacBookPro15,2 (2.3 GHz 8GB)

i cloned with git clone --branch v5.0.1 https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender.git --depth=1 and that worked for me