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How to install Simplex Chat CLI on a Mac with M1

You can find the official instructions to install SimpleX Chat CLI on MacOS on their GitHub repository

However, since I could not install SimpleX Chat CLI with those instructions, I modified some steps based on some suggestions in the issues.

I succeeded in installing SimpleX Chat CLI with the steps below.

  1. Install Haskell GHCup, GHC 8.10.7 and cabal:
  2. Build the project by the following commands:
git clone [email protected]:simplex-chat/simplex-chat.git

cd simplex-chat

git checkout stable
  1. Verify what version of OpenSSL you have installed by running:
brew search openssl
  • You should see something like the following
==> Formulae
glib-openssl    [email protected] ✔   openssl@3 ✔     [email protected]     openslp         openssh         opensaml        opensc          open-sp         openfst         opencsg         openmsx

==> Casks
openmsx                                                            opensc                                                             opensim
  • If you didn't install OpenSSL yet or you have installed only [email protected] I suggest installing openssl 3 via Homebrew as follows:
brew install openssl@3
  1. You should previously also check whether you have installed llvm and what version; you can proceed via Homebrew by checking as follows
brew search llvm
  • You should see something like the following
==> Formulae
cargo-llvm-lines                 llvm@11                          llvm@13 ✔                        llvm@15                          llvm@8                           spirv-llvm-translator
llvm ✔                           llvm@12                          llvm@14                          llvm@7                           llvm@9                           wllvm
  • If you didn't install llvm yet or you have installed only llvm@13, I suggest installing llvm@13 via homebrew as follows:
brew install llvm@13
  1. Be careful after the installation to add the PATH to the file .zshrc.

Open .zshrc and control that the line was correctly added. Rember that if you modify the file after exiting from the editor, it's necessary to run source .zshrc.

  1. Then, be sure to stay under the folder simplex-chat and run
cp scripts/cabal.project.local.mac cabal.project.local
  1. Open cabal.project.local to make some changes, and precisely be sure that in the following lines, there is openssl@3 as follows:
 extra-include-dirs: /opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3/include
    extra-lib-dirs: /opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3/lib
  1. This is a workaround (waiting for the source code to be modified). Check the correct path of the file cabal.project under the folder simplex-chat, and then open the file Controller.hs, under simplex-chat/src/Simplex/Chat/. You can jump directly to the line that should be modified by running:
nano +77 Controller.hs

  1. Modify the PATH after B.readFile with the correct one where is the file cabal.project; it should be something like /Users/foo/simplex-chat/cabal.project.

  2. In the end run:

cabal update
  1. and then
cabal install

If all is correct, you will have simplex-chat compiled and installed on your Mac M1, and you can use it by simply running:

simplex-chat

That's all.