Prebuilt macOS binaries no longer exist

[jfirebaugh]

https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install#prebuilt-binaries-1 says "Download and extract the macOS release from the latest release", with a link to https://github.com/facebook/watchman/releases/latest. Currently, that redirects to https://github.com/facebook/watchman/releases/tag/v2024.03.18.00, which has no files of the form watchman-vYYYY.MM.DD.00-macos.zip.

Are they supposed to exist or is the documentation out of date?

[EnygmaINC]

Same - still missing.

[stanleyugwu]

Still missing, stopping my development with React Native

[omeco4christ]

I've been stuck on installing watchman for too long on mac os big sur. Why is there no release for mac os!

[quux-aivar]

RPM package for Fedora 39 is not also available.

Fedora (Prebuilt RPMs)

Warning: Do not install the Fedora-supplied Watchman package. It is old and missing security, bug, and performance fixes.

From the [latest release](https://github.com/facebook/watchman/releases/latest), download the .rpm corresponding to your Fedora version
sudo dnf localinstall watchman-$VERSION.fc$FEDORA_VERSION.x86_64.rpm
Confirm successful installation by running watchman version

[DingSoung]

#1190 (comment)

[liziqiang]

I found a solution that we can get prebuilt binary from github actions artifacts.
eg: https://github.com/facebook/watchman/actions/runs/8959684395
Once the artifact is downloaded，use the follow command to extract binary to local folder

unzip -o watchman.zip
cp -vfR watchman/mac/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
cp -vfR watchman/mac/lib/* /usr/local/lib/
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/watchman*
watchman watch-del-all

[vjpr]

This is the last available mac build: https://github.com/facebook/watchman/releases/tag/v2023.05.01.00

[sluongng]

FYI homebrew build still works great for me https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/9a6fbb3755ba09ebb82fa4f0dbdfa0ce15a4b9d1/Formula/w/watchman.rb

[vjpr]

==> Installing watchman
==> cmake -S . -B build -DENABLE_EDEN_SUPPORT=ON -DPython3_EXECUTABLE=/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.12 -DWATCHMAN_VERSION_OVERRIDE=2024.05.06.00 -DWATCHMAN_BUILDINFO_OVERRIDE=Homebrew -DWATCHMAN_STATE_DIR=/usr/local/var/ru
Last 15 lines from /Users/Vaughan/Library/Logs/Homebrew/watchman/01.cmake:
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Success
-- Found Threads: TRUE
CMake Error at /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.29.5/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
  Could NOT find GMock (missing: LIBGMOCK_MAIN_LIBRARY LIBGMOCK_LIBRARY
  LIBGMOCK_INCLUDE_DIR)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.29.5/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:600 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  build/fbcode_builder/CMake/FindGMock.cmake:62 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
  CMakeLists.txt:133 (find_package)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

READ THIS: https://docs.brew.sh/Troubleshooting

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I needed to run:

brew install googletest
brew link --overwrite googletest