= 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 link:https://www.vagrantup.com/[Vagrant], buy VMware Fusion, and buy the
link:https://www.vagrantup.com/vmware[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
link:http://ilostmynotes.blogspot.com/2015/02/building-os-x-vagrant-vmware-fusion-vm.html[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
