Mist build instructions for Mac

Building Mist (GUI)

Note: Mist is currently a work in progress and might not always work.

Clone the repository to a directory of your choosing:

git clone https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum

Building mist requires some external libraries to be installed:

• GMP
• Qt 5
• Qt 5 WebEngine
• Go

Install these first:

brew install gmp go qt5
brew link -f qt5 # This is required, sorry.

Finally, build the mist program using the following commands:

cd go-ethereum
make mist

Mist does not automatically look in the right location for its GUI assets. You can set the asset path on the command line.

build/bin/mist --asset_path cmd/mist/assets

Or launch it from its source directory instead:

cd cmd/mist
../../build/bin/mist