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macOS (source)

System requirements 

We currently support macOS Mojave (10.14).

Install prerequisites 

You need the following things installed to build ROS 2:

Xcode
- If you don’t already have it installed, install Xcode.
- Note: Versions of Xcode later than 11.3.1 can no longer be installed on macOS Mojave, so you will need to install an older version manually, see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/61046761
- Also, if you don’t already have it installed, install the Command Line Tools:
```
xcode-select --install
# This command will not succeed if you have not installed Xcode.app
sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
# If you installed Xcode.app manually, you need to either open it or run:
sudo xcodebuild -license
# To accept the Xcode.app license
```
brew (needed to install more stuff; you probably already have this):
- Follow installation instructions at http://brew.sh/
- Optional: Check that brew is happy with your system configuration by running:
```
brew doctor
```
  Fix any problems that it identifies.

Use brew to install more stuff:

brew install bullet cmake cppcheck eigen pcre poco python tinyxml

# install dependencies for Fast-RTPS if you are using it
brew install asio tinyxml2

brew install opencv

# install console_bridge for rosbag2
brew install console_bridge

# install OpenSSL for DDS-Security
brew install openssl
# if you are using ZSH, then replace '.bashrc' with '.zshrc'
echo "export OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=$(brew --prefix openssl)" >> ~/.bashrc

# install dependencies for rcl_logging
brew install log4cxx spdlog

# install dependencies for Cyclone DDS
brew install bison cunit

Install rviz dependencies

# install dependencies for Rviz
brew install qt@5 freetype assimp

# Add the Qt directory to the PATH and CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH:/usr/local/opt/qt@5
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/opt/qt@5/bin

Install rqt dependencies
```
brew install graphviz pyqt5 sip
```

Use python3 -m pip (just pip may install Python3 or Python2) to install more stuff:

python3 -m pip install -U \
 argcomplete catkin_pkg colcon-common-extensions coverage \
 cryptography empy flake8 flake8-blind-except flake8-builtins \
 flake8-class-newline flake8-comprehensions flake8-deprecated \
 flake8-docstrings flake8-import-order flake8-quotes ifcfg \
 importlib-metadata lark-parser lxml mock mypy==0.761 netifaces \
 nose pep8 pydocstyle pydot pygraphviz "pyparsing>=2.4,<3" \
 pytest-mock rosdep setuptools vcstool matplotlib psutil rosdistro

Please ensure that the $PATH environment variable contains the install location of the binaries (default: $HOME/Library/Python/<version>/bin)

Optional: if you want to build the ROS 1<->2 bridge, then you must also install ROS 1:
- Start with the normal install instructions: http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/OSX/Homebrew/Source
- When you get to the step where you call rosinstall_generator to get the source code, here’s an alternate invocation that brings in just the minimum required to produce a useful bridge:
```
rosinstall_generator catkin common_msgs roscpp rosmsg --rosdistro kinetic --deps --wet-only --tar > kinetic-ros2-bridge-deps.rosinstall
wstool init -j8 src kinetic-ros2-bridge-deps.rosinstall
```
  Otherwise, just follow the normal instructions, then source the resulting install_isolated/setup.bash before proceeding here to build ROS 2.

Disable System Integrity Protection (SIP)

macOS/OS X versions >=10.11 have System Integrity Protection enabled by default. So that SIP doesn’t prevent processes from inheriting dynamic linker environment variables, such as DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, you’ll need to disable it following these instructions.

Get the ROS 2 code 

Create a workspace and clone all repos:

mkdir -p ~/ros2_galactic/src
cd ~/ros2_galactic
vcs import --input https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros2/ros2/galactic/ros2.repos src

Install additional DDS vendors (optional)

If you would like to use another DDS or RTPS vendor besides the default, you can find instructions here.

Build the ROS 2 code 

Run the colcon tool to build everything (more on using colcon in this tutorial):

cd ~/ros2_galactic/
colcon build --symlink-install --packages-skip-by-dep python_qt_binding

Note: due to an unresolved issue with SIP, Qt@5, and PyQt5, we need to disable python_qt_binding to have the build succeed. This will be removed when the issue is resolved, see: https://github.com/ros-visualization/python_qt_binding/issues/103

Environment setup 

Source the ROS 2 setup file:

. ~/ros2_galactic/install/setup.bash

This will automatically set up the environment for any DDS vendors that support was built for.

Try some examples 

In one terminal, set up the ROS 2 environment as described above and then run a C++ talker:

ros2 run demo_nodes_cpp talker

In another terminal source the setup file and then run a Python listener:

ros2 run demo_nodes_py listener

You should see the talker saying that it’s Publishing messages and the listener saying I heard those messages. This verifies both the C++ and Python APIs are working properly. Hooray!

If you installed your workspace with colcon as instructed above, “uninstalling” could be just a matter of opening a new terminal and not sourcing the workspace’s setup file. This way, your environment will behave as though there is no Galactic install on your system.
If you’re also trying to free up space, you can delete the entire workspace directory with:
```
rm -rf ~/ros2_galactic
```

macOS (source)

System requirements 

Install prerequisites 

Disable System Integrity Protection (SIP)

Get the ROS 2 code 

Install additional DDS vendors (optional)

Build the ROS 2 code 

Environment setup 

Try some examples 

Next steps after installing 

Using the ROS 1 bridge 

Additional RMW implementations (optional)

Stay up to date 

Troubleshooting 

Uninstall 