From 33b41bfe3891befd5a8aae6df263b0df3aaccc0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: N-R-K <nrk@disroot.org>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 06:44:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update compilation instruction for macos

---
 Developer-guides.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Developer-guides.md b/Developer-guides.md
index 5933bca..180d39d 100644
--- a/Developer-guides.md
+++ b/Developer-guides.md
@@ -158,6 +158,12 @@ $ ls -l nnn-static
   31953 user      20   0    2428   2244      4 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.02 ./nnn-static -cdDEnQrux /usr/bin
 ```
 
+## Compile for MacOS
+
+On macos the default system ncurses library is too old and can cause issues. Install a more up to date version from homebrew and link against it via adding the library path to `$LDLIBS`
+
+    $ LDLIBS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/ncurses/lib/" make
+
 ## Compile for Pi
 
 The `nnn` version available as a stable Raspbian package is very out of date (v2.2), which means that the only way to get a recent version of `nnn` is to compile from source.