From fb3e15e8ee1d5fe6cdfee8315c5d625fe569ba7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Ravenscroft <ravenscroftj@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 07:36:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added some guidance for building on mac to build.md

---
 BUILD.md | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/BUILD.md b/BUILD.md
index 1a7d05f..56e2439 100644
--- a/BUILD.md
+++ b/BUILD.md
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ TurboPilot is a C++ program that uses the [GGML](https://github.com/ggerganov/gg
 
 To build turbopilot you will need CMake, Libboost, a C++ toolchain and GNU Make.
 
+#### Ubuntu
+
 On Ubuntu you can install these things with:
 
 ```bash
@@ -13,6 +15,14 @@ sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install libboost-dev cmake build-essential
 ```
 
+#### MacOS
+
+If you use [brew](https://brew.sh/) you can simply add these dependencies by running:
+
+```bash
+brew install cmake boost
+```
+
 ### Checkout Submodules
 
 Make sure the ggml subproject is checked out with `git submodule init` and `git submodule update`
@@ -24,9 +34,11 @@ Configure cmake to build the project with the following:
 ```bash
 mkdir ggml/build
 cd ggml/build
-cmake -D CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-static" ..
+cmake ..
 ```
 
+If you are running on linux you can optionally compile a static build with `cmake -D CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-static" ..` which should make your binary portable across different flavours of the OS.
+
 From here you can now build the components that make up turbopilot:
 
 ```bash