MacOS Setup Info

[brendandebeasi]

Could somebody provide some guidance on setting up udev rules on MacOS?

this doesn't work on MacOS Ventura:
sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/greatscottgadgets/greatfet/master/host/util/54-greatfet.rules -O /etc/udev/rules.d/54-greatfet.rules
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules\

Thanks in advance!

[brendandebeasi]

Maybe this step isn't necessary on MacOS actually? Seems like it's working fine. If somebody can confirm I can send a PR for the docs to mention this.

[martinling]

Yeah udev is a completely Linux-specific mechanism, it doesn't exist on other operating systems. There's no need for that step on MacOS.

[brendandebeasi]

Thank you @martinling

In addition, to build this from source on MacOS you need to run:

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install ipython

If you install the latest release shell autocomplete doesn't work properly due to the newer version of Python3