Install xquartz homebrew install#

With formulas moving to no longer depend on XQuartz for the benefit of LinuxBrew et al, perhaps it would make sense to transition to installing Xorg on Mac via Homebrew, perhaps using the MacPorts Portfiles as a template? I think this needs further discussion.īeta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback. The MacPorts version of xorg-server is maintained, currently at version 1.20.10. There are newer mailing list posts of people trying to build XQuartz with newer SDK, without much luck and with no one helping.īased on this, I don't believe XQuartz.app will be updated for Apple Silicon anytime soon, unless someone else takes over.

Install xquartz homebrew install#

The official release information page also points people to install it via MacPorts, stating that 'This is currently tested and supported on Tiger and newer versions of OS X.' If you want the latest versions, I suggest using MacPorts to install it. Yeah, that's the last time I had any free time to package everything up into a release, and nobody has stepped up to take that over. The last version of XQuartz available for download is from 2016.

Version 2.7.11 was released in October 2016 - over four years ago.įrom their maintainer on the mailing list in March 2020: It appears that upstream has not been maintaining the XQuartz binary package, and is instead encouraging people to use the MacPorts xorg-server or xorg-server-devel port.