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## System Requirements

* Minimum macOS version: macOS Catalina 10.15 or Big Sur 11.0
(make sure bash 4.0 is installed and used as modern macOS defaults to Zsh as its primary system shell)
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**Note:** to make a fully M1-compatible release build of Keyman for macOS (for
the setup Applescript), Big Sur 11.0 is required, as osacompile on earlier
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* XCode (iOS, macOS) 12.4 or later is needed only for Keyman for macOS and Keyman
for iOS.
(Be sure to install XCode 26.2 or 26.3 maximum as they use clang 17.0 . Higher versions of XCode use Clang 21.0 which may not work)
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* Install from App Store
* Accept the Xcode license: `sudo xcodebuild -license accept`

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