esp-idf/docs/api-guides/jtag-debugging/building-openocd-macos.rst

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Building OpenOCD from Sources for MacOS
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The following instructions are alternative to downloading binary OpenOCD from Espressif website. To quickly setup the binary OpenOCD, instead of compiling it yourself, backup and proceed to section :doc:`setup-openocd-macos`.

.. highlight:: bash

Download Sources of OpenOCD
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The sources for the ESP32-enabled variant of OpenOCD are available from Espressif GitHub under https://github.com/espressif/openocd-esp32. To download the sources, use the following commands::

    cd ~/esp
    git clone –recursive https://github.com/espressif/openocd-esp32.git

The clone of sources should be now saved in ``~/esp/openocd-esp32`` directory.


Install Dependencies
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Install packages that are required to compile OpenOCD using Homebrew::

	brew install automake libtool libusb wget gcc@4.9

Build OpenOCD
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Proceed with configuring and building OpenOCD::

    cd ~/esp/openocd-esp32
    ./bootstrap
    ./configure
    make

Optionally you can add ``sudo make install`` step at the end. Skip it, if you have an existing OpenOCD (from e.g. another development platform), as it may get overwritten.

.. note::

    * Should an error occur, resolve it and try again until the command ``make`` works. 
    * If there is a submodule problem from OpenOCD, please ``cd`` to the ``openocd-esp32`` directory and input ``git submodule update --init``.
    * If the ``./configure`` is successfully run, information of enabled JTAG will be printed under ``OpenOCD configuration summary``. 
    * If the information of your device is not shown in the log, use ``./configure`` to enable it as described in  ``../openocd-esp32/doc/INSTALL.txt``.
    * For details concerning compiling OpenOCD, please refer to ``openocd-esp32/README.OSX``.

Once ``make`` process is successfully completed, the executable of OpenOCD will be saved in ``~/esp/openocd-esp32/src/openocd`` directory.

Next Steps
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To carry on with debugging environment setup, proceed to section :ref:`jtag-debugging-configuring-esp32-target`.