Building for macOS

We only build the arm64 images, x64(Intel-based Macs) support was removed as runners became paid.

In lieu of nicer instructions for now, one can follow what the CI action for macOS does - https://github.com/Taiko2k/Tauon/blob/master/.github/workflows/build_and_release.yaml

You do not need to build Tauon yourself if you're not a developer, we have official releases available in the Releases tab.

You will need to whitelist Tauon in the Security settings.

Building on a newer OS means the app won't run on an older one, one gets similar errors if so:

ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/TauonMusicBox.app/Contents/Frameworks/python3.14/lib-dynload/pyexpat.cpython-314-darwin.so, 0x0002): Symbol not found: _XML_SetReparseDeferralEnabled
  Referenced from: <9E2CBFF4-656E-36B5-BE0F-74B73578A250> /Applications/TauonMusicBox.app/Contents/Frameworks/python3dot14/lib-dynload/pyexpat.cpython-314-darwin.so (built for macOS 15.0 which is newer than running OS)
  Expected in:     <034292C3-3063-3ACE-B831-DC1EDAF37333> /usr/lib/libexpat.1.dylib