# ODM install on a Mac OS 14.6.1

**URL:** <https://community.opendronemap.org/t/odm-install-on-a-mac-os-14-6-1/25007>\
**Category:** ODM\
**Created:** [July 26, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://community.opendronemap.org/t/odm-install-on-a-mac-os-14-6-1/25007 "2025-07-26T03:26:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![phornsby](https://community.opendronemap.org/user_avatar/community.opendronemap.org/phornsby/32/20015_2.png) [@phornsby](https://community.opendronemap.org/u/phornsby)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://community.opendronemap.org/t/odm-install-on-a-mac-os-14-6-1/25007/1 "2025-07-26T03:26:46Z")

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I have downloaded the source code for ODM and I am now attempting to install it via the configure\_macso.sh script.

I cannot get the script to run without erroring out with the CMAke reporting:

make[3]: \*\*\* [all] Error 2  
make[2]: \*\*\* [opencv/stamp/opencv-build] Error 2  
make[1]: \*\*\* [CMakeFiles/opencv.dir/all] Error 2

Does anyone have any insight or advise on how to address these errors?

Thank you for your time and energy

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**Author:** ![pierotofy](https://community.opendronemap.org/user_avatar/community.opendronemap.org/pierotofy/32/17_2.png) [@pierotofy](https://community.opendronemap.org/u/pierotofy)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://community.opendronemap.org/t/odm-install-on-a-mac-os-14-6-1/25007/2 "2025-07-27T04:56:43Z")

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My suggestion would be to use docker on macOS.

I wrote the `configure_macos.sh` script, mostly because at the time I eventually managed to get ODM compiled natively on macOS and wanted to document the process, but it took a lot of tweaking. Homebrew has no versioning support and Apple likes to break things with regular cadence, so I would fully expect things to be broken today (years after the script was written). If you want to venture there, use the script as a guideline and not as an automation.

Or use docker.

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**Author:** ![phornsby](https://community.opendronemap.org/user_avatar/community.opendronemap.org/phornsby/32/20015_2.png) [@phornsby](https://community.opendronemap.org/u/phornsby)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://community.opendronemap.org/t/odm-install-on-a-mac-os-14-6-1/25007/3 "2025-07-28T01:25:30Z")

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thank you for your answer 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.opendronemap.org/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4860b651256c708809149b6e644fa41d44687661.png) [@system](https://community.opendronemap.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://community.opendronemap.org/t/odm-install-on-a-mac-os-14-6-1/25007/4 "2025-08-27T01:26:30Z")

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