Platform Details: Mac

Although Native Client modules are platform independent, the instructions for installing and building Native Client differ a bit between platforms. This page has details about the Mac environment.

For instructions on installing and using Native Client, see Getting Started. That page and others, such as Building Native Client, link to this page as needed.

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Tested configurations

Native Client has been tested with the following Mac configurations:

The following browsers are partially supported on Mac:

Running on Mac

Getting Python

Python 2.5 is included in Mac OS X 10.5. You can download other versions of Python from http://www.python.org/download/.

Checking the Python path

The path to python must have no spaces. You can use the which command to see the path:

$ which python
/usr/bin/python

Developing on Mac

If you don't already have Xcode, download it. It contains all the tools you need to build Native Client and the toolchain. For Xcode information and a download link, see http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode.

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