The developer docs may need a minor update addressing development on the newer Macs (M-series chips). Here is a sufficient-for-development build from source on arm64 MacOS without requiring niche workarounds for specific libraries. The following steps explain how to build Slicer from source on M-chi…

Developing for Slicer on Apple Silicon (build targeting x86_64)

arhowe00 (Andrew Howe) June 9, 2025, 3:28am 6

This is really helpful @jamesobutler , kudos!

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