# Building Mac OS X client

OS X licensing means we can’t just simply provide a build vm via vagrant as we’ve done for linux. Creating a vagrant-ready VM is fairly simple though.

## Client Build VM

Install Vagrant, buy VMware Fusion, and buy the Vagrant VMWare Fusion plugin. It’s possible to get this to work with VirtualBox, which is free, but it’s missing some useful features such as shared folders.

Create a new vagrant-ready OS X VM in VMWare Fusion. We use OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) as a base so we can install on systems at least that old, the build scripts are tested and work on that version. The essentials are:

- Commandline Tools for XCode

- PackageMaker.app for building .pkg’s

- VMWare Tools

- Vagrant ssh and sudo access